spiritualbird
July 24th, 2014, 10:26 PM
When I started using Ubuntu 12.04 two years before, it was just for experiencing a new OS. But eventually I have fallen in love with this secure, fast, intuitive OS. Now I am using 13.10. But my Ubuntu drive was the one created first time, which is only 15 GB. Now I cannot live without Ubuntu. I hate the sluggish, buggy, infected windows 7 greatly (I use it in dual boot). It only gives me pain when I try to use Windows 7. But now as my free Ubuntu drive space goes below 2 GB (now 1.4 GB), it is also giving me pain - in hangs frequently, sometimes I cannot access to net real time etc. I think these are outcome of low free space (please correct me if I am wrong).
I have read some articles regarding extending the drive, but they all seems too complicated. I will be able to boot Ubuntu from a Live CD (inshaAllah), and will be able to use Gparted from that (inshaAllah). Please help me, how can I safely unallocate some space from my sda3 and then add that to sda6 (ubuntu).
Here is my fsdik -lu and parted -l information respectively:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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: 0x72a980e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 137482221 68740087 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 137484331 393822207 128168938+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 393822208 685275135 145726464 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 685275136 976773119 145748992 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 137484333 362360129 112437898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 362360832 385648639 11643904 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 385650688 393822207 4085760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 70.4GB 70.4GB primary ntfs boot
2 70.4GB 202GB 131GB extended lba
5 70.4GB 186GB 115GB logical ntfs
6 186GB 197GB 11.9GB logical ext4
7 197GB 202GB 4184MB logical linux-swap(v1)
3 202GB 351GB 149GB primary ntfs
4 351GB 500GB 149GB primary ntfs
Please give me a safe process by which I will be able to enlarge my Ubuntu drive by 45 GB. Now it is 15 GB, I want to make it 60 GB.
I am a novice, please use simple instruction while you prepare your process.
P.S. I have read from a post that, it is critical to swap space from a drive, which is not adjacent to Ubuntu drive. In my case, I have another drive (linux swap drive) in between. So, suggest me, what should I do, at this complicated scenario.
I have read some articles regarding extending the drive, but they all seems too complicated. I will be able to boot Ubuntu from a Live CD (inshaAllah), and will be able to use Gparted from that (inshaAllah). Please help me, how can I safely unallocate some space from my sda3 and then add that to sda6 (ubuntu).
Here is my fsdik -lu and parted -l information respectively:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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: 0x72a980e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 137482221 68740087 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 137484331 393822207 128168938+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 393822208 685275135 145726464 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 685275136 976773119 145748992 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 137484333 362360129 112437898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 362360832 385648639 11643904 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 385650688 393822207 4085760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Model: ATA ST9500420AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 70.4GB 70.4GB primary ntfs boot
2 70.4GB 202GB 131GB extended lba
5 70.4GB 186GB 115GB logical ntfs
6 186GB 197GB 11.9GB logical ext4
7 197GB 202GB 4184MB logical linux-swap(v1)
3 202GB 351GB 149GB primary ntfs
4 351GB 500GB 149GB primary ntfs
Please give me a safe process by which I will be able to enlarge my Ubuntu drive by 45 GB. Now it is 15 GB, I want to make it 60 GB.
I am a novice, please use simple instruction while you prepare your process.
P.S. I have read from a post that, it is critical to swap space from a drive, which is not adjacent to Ubuntu drive. In my case, I have another drive (linux swap drive) in between. So, suggest me, what should I do, at this complicated scenario.