Hi Andy, I was searching for this after creating a dual boot machine. I rarely have to do any work with partitions (even less so with Linux), so this video was 100% what I needed. I followed your instructions and now my Linux partition is double the size. Thank you for such a great video!
Has anyone ever encountered any errors with boot ups while trying to allocate more space for Linux partition in a dual boot setup? Idk how to backup my files 😢 soo....like do I just go to my file explore and copy my entire C drive to a External HDD?
As a begginer ubuntu user, I had no idea what I was doing when I allocated 28 gigs for my linux sys partition. Just like balgxmr I was searching for a fix like this and here we are. Problem solved. You are the best! Kudos!
@ Man it has been a while since I last touched anything linux related :D It's a nice blast from the past coming back here. Good luck with you linux journey and happy holidays to you too ❤️
@@mate.neubauer Thank you. I am trying to expand my Ubuntu partition. Looks like I need to get a USB drive. I have one, but it has files on it, and I do not want to risk corrupting it, so I need to find another USB drive.
Im a developer who is new to linux and i was so scared to lose all my projects, thanks to you!!! Everything works amazing :} Thats the trust i felt sir :P Thank you a lot again.
eKiwi - Thank you so much! This worked flawlessly and I didn't have trouble with success or any hangups because of your clear and direct instructions. I went for the default install options on the bootable usb using Rufus. In my operation, however, I was prudent and shifted all of the necessary files on that SSD to another SFD. Now, after verifying that - Windows had the correct file sizes for the partitions...after the operations. - I am now back in Linux and the space it has to work with has now grown. No issues at all thanks to your clear instructions.
The screen stuch after slecting gparted live (default settings) with a background image of disks, I made my pendrive formatted fat32, 512bytes size and flashed the diskarted live completed succussfully without any error though?
So underrated. I was searching a lot for this fix! Thank you very much, appreciate the time and effort, straight to the point and very well explained ;). Like and sub.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, went perfectly well. The only thing that I think it lacked on commenting was when exiting the Gparted, we need to choose the option 'Reboot'. Besides that, solid tutorial, the best one I could find!!
Thanks for the feedback, yes you are right. But in general you can just reset / shutdown your computer after the operations with Gparted are done. Gparted runs from memory, so there is no harm doing that.
Thank you very much - this solved my exact problem. I first freed up space on the windows side because I was worried GParted wouldn't play nice with Windows. Thanks for clarifying the confusing key table option during start up. I did not have to reinstall Grub/dual boot either. I took out the USB too soon after exiting GParted, causing all sorts of error messages, but nothing was affected.
to prevent windows from wondering where the space went when you free it up in gparted, you can firstly shrink your windows volume in windows disk manager and it will be already prepared to be resized for the linux partition
In my case (Lenovo Legion Y7000) i had choose "other modes of gparted live " then "gparted live (safe graphic settings vgo=normal). Thank you so much for this video
Thankyou so much. Very simple and easy steps to follow. For those who are saying it didn't worked try doing it in AHCI mode instead of RAID On in BIOS SATA Hard drive controller.
Well, it didn't work in my case using Gparted. The Linux slider box gave no room on either side to move into the unallocated Windows space. I could move the slider handles, but not the box itself. I had no luck inside Windows 10 either. So, I discovered a partition tool called *Easus* *Partition* *Master* (free version) that allowed me to expand the Linux partition right within Windows 10 itself. It was so simple and easy like the name says. It uses the slider handle to just slide left over the gray unallocated space gaining size as it moves. So glad I found it!
Dude, I installed Ubuntu last night and only allocated 9.8gb for the entire OS 😂 thank you for showing me how to safely allocate more space. I'm a long time windows user. And first time Linux user. I was intimidated to do this because I heard that allocating more space could corrupt your files and cause problems with boot up
If someone getting stuck on bootable black screen of gparted then please use the gparted 1.4.0.5 iso version. By the way thank you for the video it really fixed my problem 😊
You can try different start options in first menu: imgur.com/a/W0Jpy2y In my case, it sometimes takes an awful lot of time before anything happens. Just did a test on one of my computers here, it took over 10 minutes. Good luck.
Hi.. I did exactly the same.. But while restarting pc, I don't see any gparted option in boot menu.. I simply got ubuntu, windows options only.. What to do?
You need to enter the UEFI/BIOS menu: typically every computer producer has its own dedicated key to be pressed at boot time to enter BIOS. Look up for your manufacturer info and you should be able to do it.
everything that could go wrong, went wrong. first of all, i have a /boot partition that i have to delete because i cannot move it. i copied it to somewhere in linux , hopefully if i make a new boot partition and copy paste it later, it will work properly! second, when i launch it, it says "unable to open display" - the visual mode just lags and never shows anything besides debian linux cli where i cannot do anything besides press ctrl +alt + delete to reboot my pc. i tried command line mode but guess what. i can't even type reboot or shutdown, it says it cannot connect to the bus! i am afraid to break anything but i still do that. i will keep trying for a bit and i will stop trying eventually
at 1:35 did you go into a virtual machine environment or something? how come your windows interface changed? (wallpaper, taskbar placement, icons, etc)
I went to a different computer. The one with the background is my main working computer, there I created the USB drive. The tutorial was then made on my test computer, where I can do those things without messing with my main computer.
@ i am dual booted with windows 11 and bazzite on a lenovo legion go. i cloned the entire ssd from a 1tb to a 4tb. i would like to keep everything the same EXCEPT the bazzite partition (btrfs) i want to take up all of the new unallocated space. when i try to resize in gpadted, i am unable to make ANY chamges to btrfs partition as it says i need btrfs tools and btrfs progs but im not sure how to acquire them or how to apply them to gparted. can you provide any help please?
Protip- If you still have the linux installation usb lying around you can just boot into it in try mode, Install gparted there Follow further steps from video And done! In my case i had my ubuntu installation usb I booted it, selected try ubuntu Used command for gparted install Followed the video And there my resize was a success!
used rufus to get the iso file onto the usb drive, plugged it in, spammed esc to enter bios and went to boot menu, but i can't find gparted there, just ubuntu (mint) and windows, how do i fix this?
I assume you have Mint and Windows installed and it does not recognize the USB drive? One option is to try again with different settings, use MBR instead of GPT or vice versa.
There is an additional partition in between my newly created unallocated partition and Linux partition. Thus unable to merge unallocated to Linux...what to do
this was awesome. previously I try using another method which use live ubuntu to acces gparted and resize windows partition from windows but that give me some error, with this there is no error and can run smoothly
After booting the flash drive and selecting GParted Live, it says “error: invalid magic number” “error: you need to load the kernel first.” Can anyone please help?
According to this forum, the creation of the USB drive might not have worked correctly: www.linux.org/threads/solved-invalid-magic-number-need-to-load-kernel-first.30204/ So one option could be to recreate the boot device.
after choosing the mode where you click enter, it showed some stuff just like in the video but the screen suddenly turned black with nothing. can anyone help?
I want to increase my ubuntu 20.04 and my system is dual boot(windows 11 and ubuntu 20.04) whenever i gparted default live partition then it display this message "acpi bios error(bug) failure creating object
Answer von ChatGPT 🙂 The small unallocated space you’re seeing, whether it's 2 MB or 10 MB, is a common occurrence on modern hard drives or SSDs. This space is typically reserved by the system and can serve various purposes depending on the configuration and the disk's partitioning scheme. Reasons for Unallocated Space: Partition Alignment: This small unallocated space is often created to ensure proper alignment of partitions, which can improve performance, especially on SSDs. In some cases, disk management tools or operating systems create this unallocated space during the partitioning process to align partitions on specific boundaries. GPT Partition Table: If your drive is using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) scheme, a small amount of space (usually a few MBs) might be reserved to store the GPT itself or for backup purposes. GPT stores two copies of the partition table (one at the beginning of the disk and one at the end), which might leave a small unallocated space. System Reserved or OEM Partitions: Sometimes, OEM manufacturers or operating systems leave a small unallocated space for potential future use, like system recovery or special tools. GPT Table Backup: Your hypothesis about this being related to the GPT table backup is plausible. The GPT partitioning scheme does indeed reserve space for a backup of the partition table. However, typically this backup does not require 10 MB. It's more common for this space to be in the range of 1 to 2 MB, but variations can occur depending on how the disk was partitioned.
is it possible to put linux partitions inside windows extended partition ? it seems that linux installer reporting 4 primary partitions as max for my fs (i have 2 hidden/system partitions + drive C primary/boot + drive D extended/logical)
This should be possible according to this forum thread: askubuntu.com/questions/136035/can-i-install-ubuntu-on-a-logical-partition-what-will-be-the-advantage-or-disa/136064#136064
@@ekiwi-blog-english I figured it out, I used disk manager in windows to shrink the volume for windows, then went into gparted to extend the KDE Linux volume.
I had an error where gparted said that "ntfsprogs/ntfs-3g" was missing. I solved it by changing the windows partition from ntfs to fat32 -> apply, then resizing partitions as needed and switching the windows partition back to ntfs -> apply. This is probably not the recommended way of solving that issue but i thought I might share anyway.
Thank you for the excellent guide, but I have a problem, when I boot with flash that has live gparted I get error: set_second_stage() failed: Invalid Parameter Something has gone seriously wrong: shim_init() failed: Invalid Parameter , I tried several variants on rufus but did not help, any suggestions? I also have dual boot with grub, Kali Linux and WIn 10, maybe I can just use gparted in Kali or there's a chance to break stuff?
Hard to tell from here, it depends where the unallocated space is. If its next to the system partition the system partition usually can be expanded. This should also be possible in Windows directly if the space is directly on the right hand side of the system partition.
@@petross2819 Sorry to hear that, but frankly I am not able to help you from here really. If you want to backup your data from the Windows system, I have a tutorial for that: ekiwi-blog.de/en/25087/windows-does-not-boot-rescue-your-data/ There are also plenty of tutorials for the startup repair on the internet. You should check those out, after you have a backup of your data.
great video! but when i tried this myself, an error occured, when i booted up the gparted image, the gparted program started automatically, as you said, but the windows partition had --- in the "used" column, which made it impossible to slide the slider and allocate more space for linux, does anyone know what the error is and how can i fix it? thanks in advance
@@ekiwi-blog-english unfortunately, that didn't help, i do have addiitonal information though, when i run the gparted image and the program starts, the windows partition says it's "not mounted" which i don't really understand what means, but i assume the program can't really "see" the windows partition
@@ekiwi-blog-english this message pushed me into the right direction. the windows partition was encrypted, after turning the encryption off, i was able to resize my linux partition! thank you so much for this tutorial and for the additional help!
IN MY CASE (lenovo thinkpad) i had to choose "other modes of gparted live" then "gparted live (safe graphics settings, vga=normal) then it worked. In my case there were also a partition between the one i wanted to extent and the free space so i had to move the partition who was between at the end.
I have an issue. I have a swapp partition for Linux between the two partitions so I cannot move the main Linux partition to the unallocated. Is there any way to fix that ?
@@ekiwi-blog-english i changed my swap partition system to a swap file. When I got time will first allocate the partition to windows partition, and then I will do your tutorial. I hope to not corrupt anything 😂
Hello I have same issue kali Linux dual boot space has run out can't update, I make around 9gb allocated data and when I want to move the kali Linux to unallocated there's no sign of the unallocated data what do I do ? Could you message me want to speak to out to how to resolve this as I don't want to damage data I have on the dual boot kali Linux kind regards
@@soa0086 hey bro Hello I have same issue kali Linux dual boot space has run out can't update, I make around 9gb allocated data and when I want to move the kali Linux to unallocated there's no sign of the unallocated data what do I do ? Could you message me want to speak to out to how to resolve this as I don't want to damage data I have on the dual boot kali Linux kind regards
"yes it just a prototype search for mipad 5 dual boot github.com/erdilS/Port-Windows-11-Xiaomi-Pad-5". Interesting, never heard of this before. For your question, I do not have any experience with Windows Android combintations if this tutorial works here.
My problem is I'm trying to do this on my steam deck after I already partioned my ssd into 2 drives 1 for steam os & 1 for windows but even following your tutorial it won't let me resize I need some of the steam os storage added to windows but it won't let me
Thanks for the video ! I would like to resize the linux part to allocate more space for the windows part. Why we can't resize the linux part directly on ubuntu partition thanks to Gparted app which is already installed on my ubuntu ? Thanks ;)
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Hi Andy, I was searching for this after creating a dual boot machine. I rarely have to do any work with partitions (even less so with Linux), so this video was 100% what I needed.
I followed your instructions and now my Linux partition is double the size. Thank you for such a great video!
Thanks for the feedback. 🙂
Has anyone ever encountered any errors with boot ups while trying to allocate more space for Linux partition in a dual boot setup? Idk how to backup my files 😢 soo....like do I just go to my file explore and copy my entire C drive to a External HDD?
As a begginer ubuntu user, I had no idea what I was doing when I allocated 28 gigs for my linux sys partition. Just like
balgxmr I was searching for a fix like this and here we are. Problem solved. You are the best! Kudos!
Same here. I allocated only 50 gigs to Ubuntu, instead of 750 gigs. So, hopefully I can bring it to 750 GB. Also, Merry Christmas/happy holidays bro.
@ Man it has been a while since I last touched anything linux related :D
It's a nice blast from the past coming back here. Good luck with you linux journey and happy holidays to you too ❤️
@@mate.neubauer Thank you. I am trying to expand my Ubuntu partition. Looks like I need to get a USB drive. I have one, but it has files on it, and I do not want to risk corrupting it, so I need to find another USB drive.
Im a developer who is new to linux and i was so scared to lose all my projects, thanks to you!!! Everything works amazing :}
Thats the trust i felt sir :P Thank you a lot again.
goat adam
I went through some videos with no results, but yours helped me a lot, clear and well explained. Big thanks to you sir. Keep up
eKiwi - Thank you so much! This worked flawlessly and I didn't have trouble with success or any hangups because of your clear and direct instructions. I went for the default install options on the bootable usb using Rufus.
In my operation, however, I was prudent and shifted all of the necessary files on that SSD to another SFD. Now, after verifying that
- Windows had the correct file sizes for the partitions...after the operations.
- I am now back in Linux and the space it has to work with has now grown.
No issues at all thanks to your clear instructions.
The screen stuch after slecting gparted live (default settings) with a background image of disks, I made my pendrive formatted fat32, 512bytes size and flashed the diskarted live completed succussfully without any error though?
Same as me
So underrated. I was searching a lot for this fix! Thank you very much, appreciate the time and effort, straight to the point and very well explained ;). Like and sub.
So straightforward and yet thorough. Great job, I will keep an eye on the rest of your work. Greetings from ARG ;)
Thank you so much for the tutorial, went perfectly well. The only thing that I think it lacked on commenting was when exiting the Gparted, we need to choose the option 'Reboot'. Besides that, solid tutorial, the best one I could find!!
Thanks for the feedback, yes you are right. But in general you can just reset / shutdown your computer after the operations with Gparted are done. Gparted runs from memory, so there is no harm doing that.
Thank you very much - this solved my exact problem. I first freed up space on the windows side because I was worried GParted wouldn't play nice with Windows. Thanks for clarifying the confusing key table option during start up. I did not have to reinstall Grub/dual boot either. I took out the USB too soon after exiting GParted, causing all sorts of error messages, but nothing was affected.
Thanks a lot.... I gained real confidence after watching your video, followed the steps and now I a lot of storage on my ubuntu partition....
I finally did it, it's 23:23 here and I spent the whole day investigating about this. Thank you so much!!
Concise complete explanation . Thanks for this.
to prevent windows from wondering where the space went when you free it up in gparted, you can firstly shrink your windows volume in windows disk manager and it will be already prepared to be resized for the linux partition
this helped me.. it kept failing in gparted until i tried this out and it worked fine afterwards
In my case (Lenovo Legion Y7000) i had choose "other modes of gparted live " then "gparted live (safe graphic settings vgo=normal). Thank you so much for this video
Thanks for the comment! I had to use the same option for my dell 5570
Same here on a Lenovo ideapad gaming 3.
Worked as it should! In my case I had to use MBR but everything else was as on the video. Thank you for clear and detailed tutorial.
I had to use the recommended setting, as the DD setting you showed did not work for some reason🙏
Thankyou so much. Very simple and easy steps to follow. For those who are saying it didn't worked try doing it in AHCI mode instead of RAID On in BIOS SATA Hard drive controller.
Saved it! I never comment on UA-cam videos but this one is soo good. Keep up the good work boss!!
I had suffered for 1 week. I just came across this tutorial and it worked so damn fine. Thank you. More love ❤️❤️❤️ from Africa
Worked for me after troubleshooting some chkdsk issues when initially running the Gparted bootable disk. Dropped a like and thanks for the video!
Thank you so much! I was frustrated for days until I found this video.
Thank you sir. After watching your video i was able to extend my linux partition without any flaws! Windows 11 and linux both boot!
Well, it didn't work in my case using Gparted. The Linux slider box gave no room on either side to move into the unallocated Windows space. I could move the slider handles, but not the box itself. I had no luck inside Windows 10 either. So, I discovered a partition tool called *Easus* *Partition* *Master* (free version) that allowed me to expand the Linux partition right within Windows 10 itself. It was so simple and easy like the name says. It uses the slider handle to just slide left over the gray unallocated space gaining size as it moves. So glad I found it!
Thanks bro, life saving comment
ohh thx
Many thanks for this complete and clear explanation which allowed me to extend my Linux partition in a straigthforward way. Pascal
Dude, I installed Ubuntu last night and only allocated 9.8gb for the entire OS 😂 thank you for showing me how to safely allocate more space. I'm a long time windows user. And first time Linux user. I was intimidated to do this because I heard that allocating more space could corrupt your files and cause problems with boot up
I found that there was 50gb allocated to neither, thank you so much!
50GB for free xD
If someone getting stuck on bootable black screen of gparted then please use the gparted 1.4.0.5 iso version.
By the way thank you for the video it really fixed my problem 😊
Yeah got the issue resolved with 1.4.0.5 version, thanks for the comment❤
thanks a lot !
Thank you very much. This video helped me to increase the size of the Ubuntu partition after dual boot. Keep it up.
Thank you very much, perfect. I was really afraid that I would lose my data but it worked perfectly
Gparted default setting not showing anything its stuck with single underscore .what should i do?
At what point of the video?
@@ekiwi-blog-englishsame for me at 4:36
Did the exact same steps and have a black screen with just one underscore
@@ekiwi-blog-englishafter testing this out, i had to click on «other modes» and start without graphics
Worked perfectly for me. I'm using garduda dual boot with Windows 11. Thank you!
I followed every step, but I could not expand the Linux partition, it is greyed out.
At 5:18 when I hit enter I get stuck at this screen forever. Any idea how to fix?
You can try different start options in first menu:
imgur.com/a/W0Jpy2y
In my case, it sometimes takes an awful lot of time before anything happens. Just did a test on one of my computers here, it took over 10 minutes.
Good luck.
at 6:24 i can't move my ubuntu dist to the left even though it's already next to it. any help?
Is available free space on the left side of the ubuntu partition?
@@ekiwi-blog-englishyes, but it doesn't show up when I click on resize
@@Malik-1908 Hmm, hard to tell from here, maybe you can provide a screenshot. You can mail it, if you like: andy.dunkel@ekiwi.de
I also need too, I can't resize my Linux partition
Hi.. I did exactly the same.. But while restarting pc, I don't see any gparted option in boot menu.. I simply got ubuntu, windows options only.. What to do?
You need to enter the UEFI/BIOS menu: typically every computer producer has its own dedicated key to be pressed at boot time to enter BIOS. Look up for your manufacturer info and you should be able to do it.
Excellent presentation. Thank you. It has cleared up some questions I had. Cheers
I ended up realizing something that I needed to do to fix my problem with this video.
Thank you very much anyways
everything that could go wrong, went wrong.
first of all, i have a /boot partition that i have to delete because i cannot move it. i copied it to somewhere in linux , hopefully if i make a new boot partition and copy paste it later, it will work properly!
second, when i launch it, it says "unable to open display" - the visual mode just lags and never shows anything besides debian linux cli where i cannot do anything besides press ctrl +alt + delete to reboot my pc. i tried command line mode but guess what. i can't even type reboot or shutdown, it says it cannot connect to the bus!
i am afraid to break anything but i still do that. i will keep trying for a bit and i will stop trying eventually
Thank you so much for this simple, quick, and easy to follow tutorial 🖤
Thanks a lot ! I was worry about my files on both windows and ubuntu, but it's work without any problem, god bless you !
informative and right to the point, thank you!
Did you lose your data?
@@nembilwiwamashudu7692 No
at 1:35 did you go into a virtual machine environment or something? how come your windows interface changed? (wallpaper, taskbar placement, icons, etc)
I went to a different computer. The one with the background is my main working computer, there I created the USB drive. The tutorial was then made on my test computer, where I can do those things without messing with my main computer.
@ i am dual booted with windows 11 and bazzite on a lenovo legion go. i cloned the entire ssd from a 1tb to a 4tb. i would like to keep everything the same EXCEPT the bazzite partition (btrfs) i want to take up all of the new unallocated space. when i try to resize in gpadted, i am unable to make ANY chamges to btrfs partition as it says i need btrfs tools and btrfs progs but im not sure how to acquire them or how to apply them to gparted. can you provide any help please?
@@heirriq8797 ChatGPT says, you have to install it with "sudo apt install btrfs-progs", i have never tried this with btrfs partitions.
@ ended up using gparted thru endeavourOS. not sure why standalone gparted wouldnt recognize btrfs
Thank you so much for this clear and precise tutorial!
Protip-
If you still have the linux installation usb lying around you can just boot into it in try mode,
Install gparted there
Follow further steps from video
And done!
In my case i had my ubuntu installation usb
I booted it, selected try ubuntu
Used command for gparted install
Followed the video
And there my resize was a success!
Thank you so much for this. I managed to increase size of my Ubuntu 22.04 on dual boot.
used rufus to get the iso file onto the usb drive, plugged it in, spammed esc to enter bios and went to boot menu, but i can't find gparted there, just ubuntu (mint) and windows, how do i fix this?
I assume you have Mint and Windows installed and it does not recognize the USB drive? One option is to try again with different settings, use MBR instead of GPT or vice versa.
Thank you very much. This is simple and perfect demonstration.
There is an additional partition in between my newly created unallocated partition and Linux partition. Thus unable to merge unallocated to Linux...what to do
How big is the partition? Does the partition have a name or file system type?
@@ekiwi-blog-english the partition in between them is of 600MB
@@saurabhtripathi2598 Hard to tell why that is the case, its only 600 MB so maybe it is best to just ignore the partition and leave it as it is.
hi not sure why i cannot acces to go into the gparted after done
this was awesome. previously I try using another method which use live ubuntu to acces gparted and resize windows partition from windows but that give me some error, with this there is no error and can run smoothly
i have a problem, because i need to do the opposite; i need to make the windows partition bigger and the linux partition smaller but idk how
It is very similar, check out our newest video:
ua-cam.com/video/rGnLEl8E5GI/v-deo.html
After booting the flash drive and selecting GParted Live, it says “error: invalid magic number” “error: you need to load the kernel first.” Can anyone please help?
According to this forum, the creation of the USB drive might not have worked correctly:
www.linux.org/threads/solved-invalid-magic-number-need-to-load-kernel-first.30204/
So one option could be to recreate the boot device.
after choosing the mode where you click enter, it showed some stuff just like in the video but the screen suddenly turned black with nothing. can anyone help?
Try a different video mode. There should be something with safe video mode. Maybe this works better.
I can’t see my USB in the boot menu, how can I fix it?
Go into your bios and add "USB hard disk" or something like that from the options. Then save the settings and reboot
I want to increase my ubuntu 20.04 and my system is dual boot(windows 11 and ubuntu 20.04) whenever i gparted default live partition then it display this message "acpi bios error(bug) failure creating object
So it does not boot? If Í remember, there are other boot options in the boot menu, you could try one of those. Safe mode might be a name to lookfor.
@@ekiwi-blog-englishit is working after gparted other modes option then gparted live vgo=normal
Best way to do so. after couple monthes of suffering of leak of space finally made to increase it. Thank you so much
thank you, figured i needed to load the USB version of Manjaro live disk instead of in either windows or Linux.
I got an error “Could not resolve symbol _TZ.THRM._SCP.C” and “invalid config param 0014”.
Can anyone please help?
At what point of the video are you getting the error?
@@ekiwi-blog-english nvm i resolved it
how did you solve it? i have the same problem
@@astroflexx82
5:26 that unllocated 2 MB why is that? I also have that but it's 10MB...
Edit: Is it possible that this is GPT table backup?
Answer von ChatGPT 🙂
The small unallocated space you’re seeing, whether it's 2 MB or 10 MB, is a common occurrence on modern hard drives or SSDs. This space is typically reserved by the system and can serve various purposes depending on the configuration and the disk's partitioning scheme.
Reasons for Unallocated Space:
Partition Alignment:
This small unallocated space is often created to ensure proper alignment of partitions, which can improve performance, especially on SSDs.
In some cases, disk management tools or operating systems create this unallocated space during the partitioning process to align partitions on specific boundaries.
GPT Partition Table:
If your drive is using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) scheme, a small amount of space (usually a few MBs) might be reserved to store the GPT itself or for backup purposes. GPT stores two copies of the partition table (one at the beginning of the disk and one at the end), which might leave a small unallocated space.
System Reserved or OEM Partitions:
Sometimes, OEM manufacturers or operating systems leave a small unallocated space for potential future use, like system recovery or special tools.
GPT Table Backup:
Your hypothesis about this being related to the GPT table backup is plausible. The GPT partitioning scheme does indeed reserve space for a backup of the partition table. However, typically this backup does not require 10 MB. It's more common for this space to be in the range of 1 to 2 MB, but variations can occur depending on how the disk was partitioned.
legend, thank you so much for the simple instructions
is it possible to put linux partitions inside windows extended partition ? it seems that linux installer reporting 4 primary partitions as max for my fs (i have 2 hidden/system partitions + drive C primary/boot + drive D extended/logical)
This should be possible according to this forum thread:
askubuntu.com/questions/136035/can-i-install-ubuntu-on-a-logical-partition-what-will-be-the-advantage-or-disa/136064#136064
@@ekiwi-blog-english Great, thanks for the link and for the video tutorial.
My main drive seems locked and can’t shrink allocation by gparted
Maybe Windows fast boot is active?
@@ekiwi-blog-english It does say the windows partition is bitlocker encrypted, maybe it’s that
@@ekiwi-blog-english I figured it out, I used disk manager in windows to shrink the volume for windows, then went into gparted to extend the KDE Linux volume.
@@saeedmoodi Yes, thats the reason, you have to decrypt first, resize, then you can encrypt again.
While starting gparted live i get an error cannot open /dev/mem operation not permitted
Sorry, no idea, I never got this error.
@@ekiwi-blog-english i figured it out. had to update my bios and turn off secure boot 🤣
@@djuka8121 Oh that is interesting, good to know.
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I had an error where gparted said that "ntfsprogs/ntfs-3g" was missing. I solved it by changing the windows partition from ntfs to fat32 -> apply, then resizing partitions as needed and switching the windows partition back to ntfs -> apply. This is probably not the recommended way of solving that issue but i thought I might share anyway.
Fantastic video! Very helpful
Thank you very much 🙏 It was really helpful and simple guide. Once again thank you
Can i use this for home to root partition
Great video, super helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for the excellent guide, but I have a problem, when I boot with flash that has live gparted I get error: set_second_stage() failed: Invalid Parameter
Something has gone seriously wrong: shim_init() failed: Invalid Parameter , I tried several variants on rufus but did not help, any suggestions? I also have dual boot with grub, Kali Linux and WIn 10, maybe I can just use gparted in Kali or there's a chance to break stuff?
You can try another tool for creating the USB flash drive: unetbootin.github.io/
Thats the only idea I have right now.
Hi ! I cannot resize my Windows partition because my system file is uncrypted by bitlocker
If you mean encrypted then you have to decrypt the partition first and remove bitlocker. you can reenable it afterwards.
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Thank you. I found this to be very useful. 😀
I have 2.25GiB unallocated. Can this be added to my EFI System Partition/boot partition?
Hard to tell from here, it depends where the unallocated space is. If its next to the system partition the system partition usually can be expanded. This should also be possible in Windows directly if the space is directly on the right hand side of the system partition.
Can't I just download the ISO and put it on Ventoy?
This should work too!
Thanks for the video! Works perfect!
My windows dont open now,and i tried all troubleshooting aolutiona but still not working,what to do now
Is there an error message when starting Windows? Are you using grub?
@@ekiwi-blog-english it starts the startup repair,i tried everything there but nothing works,moreover it doesnt allow me to go in safe mode
@@petross2819 Sorry to hear that, but frankly I am not able to help you from here really. If you want to backup your data from the Windows system, I have a tutorial for that:
ekiwi-blog.de/en/25087/windows-does-not-boot-rescue-your-data/
There are also plenty of tutorials for the startup repair on the internet. You should check those out, after you have a backup of your data.
Yeah i ll just reinstall it now,i cant do something else
Thank you so much sir you saved my project
You can safely move your efi and swap file if available too
great video! but when i tried this myself, an error occured, when i booted up the gparted image, the gparted program started automatically, as you said, but the windows partition had --- in the "used" column, which made it impossible to slide the slider and allocate more space for linux, does anyone know what the error is and how can i fix it? thanks in advance
Could be the quick start feature. Try to disable this first in Windows or restart the computer instead of shutting it down.
@@ekiwi-blog-english unfortunately, that didn't help, i do have addiitonal information though, when i run the gparted image and the program starts, the windows partition says it's "not mounted" which i don't really understand what means, but i assume the program can't really "see" the windows partition
@@bobik2396 I do not think that the partition must or should be mounted. Are you using bitlocker or something else?
@@ekiwi-blog-english this message pushed me into the right direction. the windows partition was encrypted, after turning the encryption off, i was able to resize my linux partition! thank you so much for this tutorial and for the additional help!
@@bobik2396 Great to hear that it worked.
IN MY CASE (lenovo thinkpad) i had to choose "other modes of gparted live" then "gparted live (safe graphics settings, vga=normal) then it worked. In my case there were also a partition between the one i wanted to extent and the free space so i had to move the partition who was between at the end.
Thank you. In my case this is working only by this
How can I enter startup menu
Usually you have a press a special key, depending on your computer. F12, F2, Enter or Delete are common keys you have to press during start.
I have an issue. I have a swapp partition for Linux between the two partitions so I cannot move the main Linux partition to the unallocated. Is there any way to fix that ?
Sorry, I have not tried this before.
@@ekiwi-blog-english i changed my swap partition system to a swap file. When I got time will first allocate the partition to windows partition, and then I will do your tutorial. I hope to not corrupt anything 😂
@@soa0086 Good luck, as it usually works without any problems, I always recommend a backup before doing such things.
Hello I have same issue kali Linux dual boot space has run out can't update, I make around 9gb allocated data and when I want to move the kali Linux to unallocated there's no sign of the unallocated data what do I do ? Could you message me want to speak to out to how to resolve this as I don't want to damage data I have on the dual boot kali Linux kind regards
@@soa0086 hey bro Hello I have same issue kali Linux dual boot space has run out can't update, I make around 9gb allocated data and when I want to move the kali Linux to unallocated there's no sign of the unallocated data what do I do ? Could you message me want to speak to out to how to resolve this as I don't want to damage data I have on the dual boot kali Linux kind regards
Question: Is the 100mb boot/efi/
partition enough? I let Linux choose the ubuntu partitions itself.
Never had any problems with the partition or this size. So I recommend leave it as it is.
@@ekiwi-blog-english Thank you!!
Could this work in a tabler with dualboot windows-android?
Windows - Android? Does such a tablet exist?
"yes it just a prototype search for mipad 5 dual boot github.com/erdilS/Port-Windows-11-Xiaomi-Pad-5". Interesting, never heard of this before. For your question, I do not have any experience with Windows Android combintations if this tutorial works here.
On point. Very much helpful. Thank You! 😊
Great tutorial, worked for me
My problem is I'm trying to do this on my steam deck after I already partioned my ssd into 2 drives 1 for steam os & 1 for windows but even following your tutorial it won't let me resize I need some of the steam os storage added to windows but it won't let me
Hard to tell whats wrong there. Usually this could mean that there is some data in the way. Which partition do you want to resize?
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Thank you so much! Worked well
Thank you so much for this tutorial❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much sir, you helped me out loads
is it better use the DD or the ISO?
Should not make a difference, I once had problems with ISO, wo I now only use DD. DD seems to be the more stable way.
How to do it on MSI laptop after making the USB drive from rufus? I entered the bios setting but i dont know what to continue@@ekiwi-blog-english
@@fawwazyo9169 Sorry, I cannot tell you about the specifics for this model. Google should help you here.
please someone helps me i cant set up Gparted
What is the problem?
That halped me about my problem sir,I Soo love you🗿
Thanks for the video ! I would like to resize the linux part to allocate more space for the windows part. Why we can't resize the linux part directly on ubuntu partition thanks to Gparted app which is already installed on my ubuntu ? Thanks ;)
It is best, when the partition is not in use.
@@ekiwi-blog-english thanks for your reply. In my case what can i do ?
@@user-nt8ok Like shown in my video, create a USB drive, boot from it and change your partitions.
@@ekiwi-blog-english thanks sir !
excellent explanation 🔥
I could only increase my Windows partition using GParted from a Mint live pre install USB Drive. Now Windows 10 and Mint both still work.
Thank you very much this video was very very helpfull