1 Topic by cdwscout

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Topic: Editing a partition size?

So, I run Ubuntu on an laptop as my main computer, and it still has Windows 7 on it. Win7 was partitioned around 230gb, and Ubuntu 60. However, I recently deleted pretty much all unnecessary files from Windows to begin partitioning some breathing room for Linux. However, in order to edit the Windows partition size, it can't be mounted, but if it's not mounted, it shows the min. and max. size as 231932 mb, which is the "real" maximum, and it won't let me resize it. If I mount it, it shows how much is actually being used, but I can't resize it. Help?

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Re: Editing a partition size?

GParted needs that partitions are unmounted in order to modify them.
You need to unmount the windows partition to be able to resize it.

If ubuntu automatically mounts the partitions, you have either to find how to disable automount, or use the GParted livecd that doesn't mount any partition by default.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***