bontrager.nathan
October 10th, 2011, 02:45 AM
I discovered after installing Ubuntu that Windows 7 allocated it a very small portion of the harddrive. I was able to use GParted to shrink the Windows partition, however, I am unable to expand the Ubuntu partition. Below is a screenshot of how my harddrive is currently partitioned via GParted:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d-H8MRiqrUs/TpJMl5Sd4BI/AAAAAAAAAaw/gt-asW_eYlQ/s800/gparted.png
When I shrank the Windows partition (dev/sda2) it left all the unallocated space in the middle. I am able to move/resize dev/sda5 (which is the one immediately to the right of the unallocated space and is shared drive accessible from both Windows and Ubuntu that already was set up when I got the laptop, a Lenovo G470) but when I then try to resize dev/sda4 (where Ubuntu is installed) it will not let me enlarge or move it, only make it smaller.
dev/sda4 was previously flagged as "diag" but I changed that thinking it might allow expansion, which it did not (both via the boot CD and the version running in Ubuntu).
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d-H8MRiqrUs/TpJMl5Sd4BI/AAAAAAAAAaw/gt-asW_eYlQ/s800/gparted.png
When I shrank the Windows partition (dev/sda2) it left all the unallocated space in the middle. I am able to move/resize dev/sda5 (which is the one immediately to the right of the unallocated space and is shared drive accessible from both Windows and Ubuntu that already was set up when I got the laptop, a Lenovo G470) but when I then try to resize dev/sda4 (where Ubuntu is installed) it will not let me enlarge or move it, only make it smaller.
dev/sda4 was previously flagged as "diag" but I changed that thinking it might allow expansion, which it did not (both via the boot CD and the version running in Ubuntu).