10Jan/112
How do I increase the linux boot partition on my hard drive?
I have a dual boot windows 7 / Linux partition on my 500GB hard drive. I wish to increase my disk partition from 25gb to maybe 50-75gb for the linux section (as I need some more space but not much). How would I go about doing this?
January 10th, 2011 - 17:26
What you need is a “partition manager”. GParted is probably the most popular, and it’s very easy to use. You can find it in the software manager, or you can run
sudo apt-get install gparted
After you install it, if you’re running Gnome DE, you can find it in Applications -> System Tools.
January 10th, 2011 - 18:18
If you installed LVM it’s going to be easy, partition LVM in the new space and expand the volume.
I’m assuming however you just used the default partition.
There are several pieces of software which do this. I don’t suggest any of them, they only really work about 1/2 the time and the other half all your data ends up destroyed.
I hate to give you this advice but the only way to do this right is a clean install. When you do, here are some suggestions:
Don’t put your OS on the same partition you put your files. Keeping them separate will save you a lot of headache later.
Use an LVM partition, it’s going to be a little learning for you about how it works, but again, you can increase and decrease the size of your volumes at will. It’s not as nice as zfs but it works pretty well.