Friday, May 26, 2017

resize - How to increase size of /boot partition using gparted


please help me here
i am always getting messages saying no free space available in boot partition.


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output of ls -alh /boot


total 79M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Sep 7 20:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Sep 5 18:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M May 8 16:14 abi-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Aug 17 12:10 abi-4.1.6-040106-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168K May 8 16:14 config-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177K Aug 17 12:10 config-4.1.6-040106-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Sep 5 14:23 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M Aug 22 22:49 initrd.img-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M Aug 24 00:35 initrd.img-4.1.6-040106-generic
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Aug 12 12:52 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root 3.4M May 8 16:14 System.map-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 3.6M Aug 17 12:10 System.map-4.1.6-040106-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.1M Jun 28 01:15 vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 6.4M Aug 17 12:10 vmlinuz-4.1.6-040106-generic

output of sudo parted -l


Model: ATA ST9500325AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs hidden
2 106MB 140GB 140GB primary ntfs boot
3 140GB 471GB 331GB primary ntfs
4 471GB 500GB 29.5GB extended lba
5 471GB 493GB 22.0GB logical ext4
6 493GB 499GB 6536MB logical linux-swap(v1)
7 499GB 500GB 910MB logical ext4

@Pilot6



You need to boot from Ubuntu LiveUSB first.


Your sda5, sda6 and sda7 partitions are inside the extended sda4 partition.


You will need to extend sda4, then move sda5 and sda6 left, then extend sda7.


You will also need to re-install grub, because start sector of your /boot partition will change. It can be done from LiveUSB by


sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/boot
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
exit

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