How to Change or Increase Partition Size Using GParted on Linux
GParted is an app partition editor or partition manager on the GNU/Linux operating system which can be used to change the partition size, partition label, type file system partitions, delete partitions and so on.
The partition size is set during the operating system installation process. But sometimes after a while, it turns out that the size of the partition that we previously set during installation is not enough or does not match our needs, so we have to increase the size of the partition.
We can use the GParted application to change or increase the partition size. I will give a tutorial how to change or increase partition size using GParted on Linux.
Changing or Increasing Partition Size Using GParted on Linux
In this tutorial I use Kali Linux, where on Kali Linux the GParted application is installed automatically defaults. You can use distribution apart from Kali Linux which has a GParted application. If the distribution you are using does not have GParted installed by default, please install the GParted application first or you can use Kali Linux Live or GParted Live.
Open the GParted application, once open, the partitions on the device will appear as shown below. In the picture you can see that there is an empty space labeled unallocated. In this tutorial we will add this free space to the Linux partition named /dev/sda3.
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| GParted View |
To increase the size of the partition /dev/sda3. right click on partition /dev/sda3 it or click the menu partition in the menu above so that a menu will appear dropdownselect Resize/Move on the menu dropdown the.
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| Resizing Partitions |
Then it will appear pop-up as in the image below:
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| Pop-up Resize/Move GParted Partition |
In the picture you can see that there is an empty space on the Free space following as much as 7539 MB which is free space or unallocated which was. To add it to /dev/sda3, slide the arrow on the right to the right according to the desired size.
If you want to add all the free space to the partition /dev/sda3 it, drag the arrow all the way to the end so that Free space following to 0, then click the button Resize/Move at the bottom Pop-ups the.
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| Enlarge Partition Size |
If you have succeeded and have returned to the main GParted screen, click Edit in the menu line above on GParted and a menu will appear dropdownselect Apply All Operations to save all the changes that have been made earlier.
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| Apply All Operation |
Then a menu will appear pop-up which asks if you are sure you want to go through the process because it could potentially lose data. Click on button Apply to start the process.
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| Pop-up Apply |
Menu appears pop-up anything else showing GParted processing the partition changes, don’t press Cancel because it can damage the system until it becomes error and also dangerous for Hard disk.
Wait for the process to complete, it may take a while. When finished select Close to exit the menu pop-up the.
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| Partition conversion process pop-up |
Then it will return to the main view of GParted. The /dev/sda3 partition which was previously 15.79 GB in size has been successfully changed or added 7.36 GB of free space so that it is now 23.15 GB. Safe!
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| Partition Size Added Successfully |
