How to enlarge Ubuntu 24.04 hard drive partition when dual booting?
Hello,
I just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my SSD with dual boot, in addition to my Windows 11 installation. During the installation, I actually specified that 512 GB should be used for Ubuntu and the remaining 1.5 TB for Windows. However, my input apparently wasn't registered correctly, so now Ubuntu is only using about 20 GB of my hard drive.
Is there a way to increase the hard drive partition for Ubuntu to 512 GB and then shrink the Windows partition accordingly without corrupting data? (Windows currently uses about 1 TB).
Thank you in advance!
minecraft380
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Data loss or partition corruption can always occur during resizing.
But the simplest solution would be to either boot a live session with the already prepared Ubuntu stick and install GParted (GParted does not remain installed) and thus change the size of the partitions on the SSD/HDD, or to download a GParted live image, boot it and do it with it.
All in all: you can use GParted to resize partitions.
Thanks for the star.
The tool you can use is called gparted.
Create a bootable USB stick with Linux Mint Mate.
Boot the PC with it, move suitable partitions, shrink or enlarge them with Gparted.
When finished, reboot the PC and the problem is solved.