Resize Your Linux Partition in Dual Boot with Windows

[@dheerajalimchandani]

Thanks, this was helpful. In case someone is unable to allocate the unallocated space to the filesystem, you need to move the unallocated space next to filesystem (either on left or right)

[@oh-win]

How do you move the partition, when I click Resize/Move it only allows me to Resize it

[@tanishqthuse9078]

Same​@@oh-win

[@eueuq]

The partition you want to fuse needs to be next to the free space. For example, I took space from sda6 which is to the right of sda5. When I clicked resize, I dragged the bar to the right to free up space to the left, leaving free space to the right of sda5.

[@eueuq]

@@oh-winsee above

[@joywinbarboza983]

​@@eueuqthank you😙

[@ashique12009]

Your process is really simple and straightforward. Thank you 👍

[@youtube.user.1234]

Thank you so much, it worked for me. I shrank my Windows partition and had my Linux 1gb (EFI?) partition to the left of my Linux partition. I used Gparted from elementary OS and I moved the 1gb partition to the left such that the unallocated space which I shrank in Windows was to the left of my Linux partition. I then resized the Linux partition as shown in the video and IT WORKED PERFECTLY! No GRUB boot issues or anything!

[@Charitha870620]

Your explanation was amazing. It was easy for me to follow and worked without issues. Thank you very much, and keep up your work. Make more videos like this to address general Linux issues. 🥰🤗

[@nadyaneron7883]

Thanks, you saved me! (Video, though is a bit old, the interface is a bit different, but this guide still works fine)

[@Naldjei3396]

Thank you, Man! It worked just great for me.

[@dre8134]

WARNING TO USERS: This works, HOWEVER there should also be an explanation of what will happen when you do resize the storage, When you do finish this and reboot, you will have the GNU GRUB menu... Meaning you CANNOT boot into anything. Which means that you have to go to redirect the PATH of the bootloader... With my case Im still trying to figure this out however youll need to go into windows and redirect the path using CMD and there are a few more things to do from there, but just a FYI bc if I would have known this I would have gone about it another way. A lot of people dont know that there needs to be additional instructions which should have been mentioned at the very least.

[@SammyNeverEver]

What do you mean you won't be able to boot into anything if you have the GNU GRUB menu? GRUB menu is for booting into things.

[@dre8134]

@@SammyNeverEver yes however once you complete this tutorial, your EFI partition will not be pointing to any of the OS's all you will see is "grub>" which is the CLI, with no option to select anything to boot from. Not many people will know what to do from here, and or what happened, including people in this comment section.

[@John-xi2im]

amazing tutorial, thanks!

[@pc8803]

5:09 till here every thing was okay but after entering Gparted Live (default settings) screen blacked out showing nothing?? What to do?

[@youssefokeil]

Same

[@pc8803]

@@youssefokeil bro best option is to re install it with required allocated partition size.

[@youssefokeil]

@@pc8803 do you mean linux itself?

[@youssefokeil]

@@pc8803 do you mean linux itself?

[@joabelisuralvaradoapaez4586]

2024 and works excellent!! Thanks

[@momoparrot]

5:21 i am stuck at this part. I am unable to get that GUI he is mentioning. I am using debian on a asus vivobook

[@xuantrangnguyen2798]

Thanks very much, super easy and useful tools for managing disk parts.

[@TalhaxD.]

Didn't worked for me

[@thiagob.6412]

Thanks Zac. It was very useful and worked pretty well for me!

[@kirill_levin]

Nice! Thank you very much! It worked smoothly. Appreciate your help.

[@turuus5215]

How long do we have to wait after pressing enter in 5:20? I see a command line trying to run something.

[@robnez5980]

im in the same boat, what did u do, or do i have to wait some time??

[@yashreg4059]

same issue brother, did you got any solution

[@yashreg4059]

@@robnez5980 same issue brother, did you got any solution

[@joywinbarboza983]

​@@yashreg4059Do you have nvidia graphics card by any chance ? Apparently some nvidia cards have issue starting X Desktop causing it to get stuck at that step. When booting into gparted live, select "Other modes of GParted Live" and choose "GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal)". It worked for me.

[@joywinbarboza983]

​@@robnez5980Do you have nvidia graphics card by any chance ? Apparently some nvidia cards have issue starting X Desktop causing it to get stuck at that step. When booting into gparted live, select "Other modes of GParted Live" and choose "GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal)". It worked for me.

[@abdulkhamidabdumannonov1644]

Thanks for this tutorial!

[@epiccomedy2255]

This is a great tutorial, but I still have trouble understanding what partition is Linux or not. On Drive 0 (C-Drive) it all says letters and numbers on the 'Type' whenever I use 'diskpart.'

[@thiagob.6412]

take your time to go through all partitions before resizing partitions. I used the "Disks" application on Linux and took a picture of each partition while clicking so I could make sure which one I was working with on GParted. I did not resize an reallocate everything at once as this is dual-boot, so I did it all step by step and rebooted to check if both Windows and Linux were still there.

[@jeffwoodard]

How do know which partion is root and home? Thank you?

[@thiagob.6412]

just by opening the "Disks" application in Linux and clicking the partitions so you can see details like "Content - Ext... - Mounted at /home/"

[@MrMii-pj9uq]

I dont get ubuntu option when the pc starts anymore. Only getting windows 11 option. Also in windows my drive-D is gone.

[@macromunji]

This worked, awesome. I used this for my Linux Mint 21 and Windows 10 dual setup.

[@utkarshtiwari3696]

did the files on linux get erased?

[@EquaTechnologies]

did the files on linux get erased? did it boot properly?

[@eduaguilar5004]

Thanks Bro It helps me a lot

[@abhayprajapati8758]

Thanks it worked for me 🎉

[@S4Ul-AC]

I’m a little confused because I shrank the windows Partion but it won’t let me give that space to Linux it’s just not an option

[@thiagob.6412]

is your disk's free space right beside the Linux partition?

[@S4Ul-AC]

@@thiagob.6412installed windows first then Linux when I wrote this I didn’t know you couldn’t resize backwards been through alotta stress since then but everything’s fine now 🤪

[@shusart562]

Dude, you're the best

[@dawipayan.]

Thank you it worked

[@umeshgayashan879]

Thanks, Worked

[@MatiMachine]

it works perfect, nice tutorial, only necessary information

[@yohaneszanghelini8151]

It wordked! Thanks!

[@TotoGlitcherYT64]

Thanks bro

[@AlexDotq]

Du bist der beste

[@teratrox4685]

Thanks it works

[@someone14566]

Thanks

[@NunoLima10]

Thanks✌️✌️✌️

[@victortesla2935]

You could have saved 30 min of your life if you resized window before you move ubuntu and then move ubuntu over the whole 40+150 gbs

[@victortesla2935]

But it doesn't matter that much because you got a comment for doing it not the best way

[@ProsperWaps]

keep up

[@kaiservonfox3589]

Nice but I'm trying to do this from Ubuntu...

[@eduaguilar5004]

You cant from Ubuntu while you are using Ubuntu

[@emir20415]

HAHAHAHHA İ DİD İT🙀❗🙀❗🙀