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.
The menu has options for
- create/delete partitions
- resize and move partitions
- format partitions
- name partitions and add flags
- Changing UUID and more
Partition properties: To show more information about a partition click on the information option in the menu shown in the above picture
Step 2: Click on Resize/Move. It will open new windows to select the size to resize partitions. As we have taken the new partition size as 10GB, add 10000(GB converted into MiB) Free Space following option. Now click on Resize/Move
Step 3: Now click “apply icon” in GParted menu( it will in the top with icons representing actions), It will ask for confirmation
After clicking on apply, the partition will be resized.
Step 4: If the resize is successful you will see a success message like below.
You will see an unallocated space in the GParted list
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