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GParted doesn't recognize the unallocated space after my current partition

I'm using GParted to resize my partitions on Linux. There is about 5GB of unallocated space following the partition sda5. However, when I right click on sda5 and select 'resize/move', it doesn't show ...
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Linux/GParted can see partition table but dd bs=512 count=1 can't

I have an MBR formatted sd card and when connect to a Linux machine (xubuntu 12.04) it can mount a partition and parse the file system (as can GParted). However, when I try to read the MBR from the ...
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I have replicated partition after I delete it using diskmgmt

I'm a linux newbie, and I messed my partition. I have 5 partition in my 500GB HD, Windows 7, Data, Data, Linux Mint and Lubuntu. I accidentally deleted Lubuntu partition using diskmgmt in Windows 7. ...
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How to force drop all partitions and erase disk from terminal?

My question is in fact related to OS X, however I'm using Linux tools to resolve my problem. I'm trying to delete all the partitions on my SSD drive and create new GUID (HFS+) partition table. Native ...
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How to repartition disk to use non-allocated space?

This is how my hard drive (where I have Xubuntu 12.10) is formatted currently, based on a recent GParted screenshot: I want to expand sda6 (4) to take up the free 11.72 GiB unallocated space. But I ...
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How should I partition my hard drive?

Xubuntu 12.10 XFCE with Greybird theme Hello, this is my GParted screenshot: Could anyone please give my any advice on how to make changes to have more space available for use in Linux? Let's ...
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Growing my extended partition to the left

I have the following one hdd Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Disk identifier: 0xfa6bd800 Device Boot Start ...
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gparted partition master boot record corrupt

I was trying to Linux Mint from live-usb and made a stupid mistake. I created master boot record and my HDD partition become unallocated. After rebooting from live OS, I'm unable to get to boot menu. ...
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Do I only need one swap partition for multiple Linux distros? (and other questions)

I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive. I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this ...
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Reset partitions numbers

I just decided to delete my Windows partition and only use Linux. My old partition table was: sda1: W7 boot partition sda2: W7 partition sda3: Linux sda4: start of logic partitions sda5: swap. I ...
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Can't increase partition size with GParted?

I've got an external disk with 6 partitions: 4 for linux, one storage in HFS+, and one storage in ext4. I'd like to delete the ext4 storage one and move it's resulting unallocated space into my HFS+ ...
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How to extend CentOS 5 partition on VMware?

I have a CentOS 5 virtual machine and I added 20GB more to disk size. How do I initialize and extend the available space? I'm new to Linux, so what should I do? I tried loading GParted as well, ...
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Is it safe to use GParted while booted?

I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, and I have the 4 main partitions (/boot, swap, /, and /home). I also have 600GB of unallocated space. I know there's always the chance of data ...
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GParted is Frozen

I've been trying to allocate more space for Windows... And to do that, I have to resize my Linux partition partition. So I booted up from my flash drive and started up gParted. Everything was ...