Make Ubuntu Use all of my HDD.

[MikeVaughanG]

So, Here's the deal.
I just installed gparted.
I would like to know if there is a way I could keep all of my files and information, and somehow give Ubuntu access to all of the space on my HDD.

Currently I have a Windows partition, but this is my first time partitioning at all, and I don't wanna mess anything up. And I dont want the Windows partition at all.

So, How do I increase the size of my Ubuntu partition, and delete the Windows one using gparted or any other tool?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Hakunka-Matata]

Hi, Welcome,

Please post the output of
sudo sfdisk -luS && sudo fdisk -lu so we can see how your drive is partitioned now, then see how it could be changed.

[MikeVaughanG]

Hi, Welcome,

Please post the output of
sudo sfdisk -luS && sudo fdisk -lu so we can see how your drive is partitioned now, then see how it could be changed.

Gladly :)



Disk /dev/sda: 77825 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 0 - 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda2 313446398 1250242559 936796162 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda5 625121343 1250242559 625121217 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 313446400 617170943 303724544 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 617172992 625121279 7948288 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006e3f9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 313446398 1250242559 468398081 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 625121343 1250242559 312560608+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 313446400 617170943 151862272 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 617172992 625121279 3974144 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[Hakunka-Matata]

sda5 & sda6 are both type 83 linux partitions:


which one is your OS?, this will tell us:


df -h

what's on the other linux partition (sda5 or sda6)? do you have a /home partition?

[MikeVaughanG]

sda5 & sda6 are both type 83 linux partitions:


which one is your OS?, this will tell us:


df -h

what's on the other linux partition (sda5 or sda6)? do you have a /home partition?





Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 143G 51G 86G 38% /
none 1.9G 680K 1.9G 1% /dev
none 1.9G 5.2M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.9G 156K 1.9G 1% /var/run
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5 294G 191M 279G 1% /media/9c8938e3-a3e2-4f8f-aafe-e1e3a3919117


I believe /sda6

[Hakunka-Matata]

/dev/sda5 294G 191M 279G 1% /media/9c8938e3-a3e2-4f8f-aafe-e1e3a3919117

sda6 is the operating system partition, do you have data stored in it also?
sda5 appears to have nothing in it, but I don't know that for sure, can you have a look in it to see if it's important, or ok to delete?
Is this what you wanted to do?, check things out before charging ahead?

[MikeVaughanG]

/dev/sda5 294G 191M 279G 1% /media/9c8938e3-a3e2-4f8f-aafe-e1e3a3919117

sda6 is the operating system partition, do you have data stored in it also?
sda5 appears to have nothing in it, but I don't know that for sure, can you have a look in it to see if it's important, or ok to delete?
Is this what you wanted to do?, check things out before charging ahead?

The operating system filesytem is the only thing I wanna save.

[MikeVaughanG]

And sda5 is okay to erase.

[Hakunka-Matata]

so what's mounted in /media?, is that a CD you have inserted in your machine now?

[Hakunka-Matata]

And sda5 is okay to erase.
I won't tell you it's ok to delete, I don't know what's in it.
have a look at it,

cd /mnt
ls

[MikeVaughanG]

the only thing in /media is a folder named 'external'

So, here's what I did. I opened a file browser with

sudo nautilus

And deleted 'external'

Now when I do

df -h

I get this



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 143G 51G 85G 38% /
none 1.9G 680K 1.9G 1% /dev
none 1.9G 5.2M 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 1.9G 156K 1.9G 1% /var/run
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /var/lock

[Hakunka-Matata]

so you either unmounted it, or deleted sda5 EDIT: i just saw you said you deleted external

what's next

[MikeVaughanG]

so you either unmounted it, or deleted sda5 EDIT: i just saw you said you deleted external

what's next


Im not sure, I just want sda6 to use all of the memory on the hdd. But I dont know how to do that.

[MikeVaughanG]

I bet I need to boot from a live disk, and so I can unmount the os filesytem, but that's just my best guess.Im new.

[YesWeCan]

This may help: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html

Using live CD, in GParted you may want to resize sda2, the extended partition, and move the left boundary right to the left so as to include the first part of your disk. Then resize sda6 and move its left boundary to the start of sda2.

[MikeVaughanG]

I think I'm gonna try to use a Gparted-live USB.