Extending the Ubuntu partition in Win 8.1 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Dual Boot

[_tinchuk]

Hello all,

I am out of space well only a couple of Gbs in the Linux partition left and I want to extend it now.

I went through a lot of askubuntu.com posts and a lot of youtube videos.

I came to this conclusions :

1-> Extending the partition from Win may be Disastrous .

2-> Extending the linux partition has to be done by booting it with a bootable USB or any other external medium.

3-> Extending partitions with ext tools like Gparted can lead to loss of data (which I don't want even in my wildest dreams).

The thing now is I am like a frightened cat with a lot of bowls of milk in front of me and I just want someone assuring me that XYZ method is safe and secure lest I loose some data and my head too !

I search of help.

Thanking You,

Meet Shah (_tinchuk)

EE Sophomore | Nothing More

[Kunal Tyagi]

Hi, Nothing More.

If I Were you, I would do the following:

Watch And Learn

* Back up the data :) (regularly)

* Use Live CD

* Extend the partition

* Check for any possible data loss

* Restore back up if required. Here's To Heart Ache

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[Pritam Baral]

1) filesystem extension is never safe (unless the filesystem was built
with that as a feature. e.g.: Zfs, Btrfs). "ext tools like Gparted"
have nothing unsafe specific to them.
2) Windows has no idea about any filesystems other than its own: *FAT* and NTFS.
3) A running Linux system cannot extend it's own filesystem, (again,
unless Zfs, Btrfs etc.), so yeah, you'll need to boot something other
than the installed Linux system.

With that said, I'd always advise you to take backups. If the
extension with Gparted (which is just as safe as any other seasoned
tool, since it uses the same thing at the core of this operation,)
does not fail, you have no need to restore from backup. But if it does
fail, and never assume that it won't, then you'll thank yourself for
the backup.

Go ahead, use Gparted, with all the precautions in place.


Regards,
Chhatoi Pritam Baral

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[_tinchuk]

Had I been in the need of such an answer I would have extended the partition by now -_-.

[Abhijit Tomar]

I had been contemplating doing this on my Sony Vaio E Series (Dual booted with Windows 8.1 + Ubuntu 14.04 LTS). Finally decided to take the plunge today.

Everything worked perfectly. I booted 14.04 from a bootable USB and resized the Windows and Ubuntu partitions using GParted. The Ubuntu partition was extended (from 16.94 GB to 104.5 GB). Total time taken was ~10 minutes.

Haven't checked whether Windows still boots but it doesn't matter to me since it is serving its purpose of storage well. All the files in both filesystems are the same as before.

Thanks a lot for your help everyone.

Abhijit Tomar,

Sophomore Undergraduate,

Mechanical Engineering,

IIT Bombay