Resizing ext4 partition

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 23:01:31 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 23:21, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>> Just a while ago my computer just froze up.
>> My /home folder was 100% full. Crap!
>> I booted using live cd and started gparted. I am unable to resize my
>> home partition.
>> I have a lot of free space but, it only shows like a few megabytes for
>> the /home partition to grow.
>>
>> Wade
>>
>        Hi Wade you need to try Gparted again and select the extended
> partition. Now with Gparted choose to make the extended
> partition much larger to include all the unused space on your
> hard drive.
>
>        Then go back to your Ubuntu partition and choose to enlarge
> it to say 20 GB. This is now possible.
>
> 73 Karl
>
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I have gparted open.
/dev/sda2 is selected. It is extended partition. It has a set of Keys
next to it... Locked?
The only option is Information on any of the menus.

Wade

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