ashish1989 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Guys I have windows 7 with linux installed, but the problem is it is occupying hdd space now and the linux drive is getting low on space day by day How can I give additional storage to the linux drive without reinstalling the OS again Looking for your valuable guidance nsaners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archanus Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 5 minutes ago, ashish1989 said: Guys I have windows 7 with linux installed, but the problem is it is occupying hdd space now and the linux drive is getting low on space day by day How can I give additional storage to the linux drive without reinstalling the OS again Looking for your valuable guidance nsaners Hey Have you seen this?? I hope it works for you https://askubuntu.com/questions/871825/add-more-disk-space-for-linux-from-windows-in-a-dual-bootable-machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashish1989 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 29 minutes ago, Archanus said: Hey Have you seen this?? I hope it works for you https://askubuntu.com/questions/871825/add-more-disk-space-for-linux-from-windows-in-a-dual-bootable-machine Not explained clearly though, any other solution???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shwescorpion Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Let says u have 2 partitions. C for Windows D for linux First shrink C for your desire amount. This can b done by windows's build in Disk Management tool. But may b take time to complete because windows itself is running and need to move the files. If can't, then use bootable disk management software like "partition wizard" to resize the C. That will create Unallocated Space behind C. Now your disk structure will b like this. C, Unallocated Space, D Now boot into live linux/ubuntu. Run the Gparted and resize or expand your D. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
man.with.a.plan Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Do you have free/unallocated space or any other partition at the "End" of your Ubuntu partition? If yes then you might be able to 1) Use that free space(Best chance of success) Or 2) Shrink some space from other partition. Have you seen this : https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1810512 Please post your Disk Management screenies.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 a good partition manager run in windows can do all that above.. depending on the partition layout you may have to things around so the ext2 or ext3 partition is contiguous so a resize can be done... if you reck the boot order.. get grubwin to fix that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashish1989 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 Ok now I understand. First I will create free space through some partition manager soft then I will go to linux live mode to allocate the free space to linux drive through gparted But it will hamper my grub. Can anybody tell me how to restore grub then. Also kindly tell me if I am right or wrong for the above steps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debebee Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 install windows partition resizer app (lots of options in the forums) and make screen shot of your current layout post it here.. only then can i tell you what to do https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub2win/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashish1989 Posted February 6, 2019 Author Share Posted February 6, 2019 Will post screenshot in the evening, in office r8 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashish1989 Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 Sorry for this late reply, I was pretty busy in my job for few days. I have made unallocated space through easeus partition master. Then I go to live mode through linux bootable pd. Now the problem is in linux live mode gparted cannot extend the drive and not able to merge the unallocated space. What to do now??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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