Deleting a Partition

Deleting a partition is simple. Select the partition you want to delete and click the delete icon on the top menu and then click apply icon. Deleting a partition will erase all the data in that partition, so be careful while using it.


Disk Partitioning in Ubuntu using GParted

Disk Partitioning is a process of separating disks into one (or) more logical areas so that user and system work on them independently. When a partition is created, the disk will store the information about the location and size of partitions in the partition table. With the partition table, each partition can appear on the operating system as a logical disk, and users can read and write data on those disks. Learn more about Disk Partitioning in Linux

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What is GParted

Disk Partitioning in Linux is done using command line programs like fdisk. GParted(GNOME Partition Editor) is a Graphical user program based on GTK which allows Disk Partitioning with just a click of the buttons. GParted is the official GNOME partition-editing application. GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking, and copying disk partitions and manipulating file systems such as exfat, fat32/64, ext2/3/4, Linux-swap and more....

Installing GParted

You can install GParted in Ubuntu with a single command using APT...

GParted Interface

To open GParted , go to Activities in Ubuntu and click on the gparted icon. It will prompt for password as GParted requires sudo privileges....

Resizing a partition to create a new Partition

Step 1: We will shrink /dev/sda4 by 10GB to create a new ext4 partition. Go on to /dev/sda4 and right-click on it and it opens an option menu like below....

Creating a New Partition

Click on the unallocated space and select new in GParted menu where we have selected in the apply icon. Select the options like size, name as file system and then click add...

Formatting a new partition

You can choose the format of the file system when creating a new partition, if you choose to format an existing partition, select the partition you want to format and right-click on it to open the partition menu. Then go to the format option and click on the type of filesystem you want. After selecting, apply the changes just by clicking on the apply icon in the top menu....

Deleting a Partition

Deleting a partition is simple. Select the partition you want to delete and click the delete icon on the top menu and then click apply icon. Deleting a partition will erase all the data in that partition, so be careful while using it....