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paru38
Asked: 2014-07-26 01:24:12 +0800 CST

How can I shrink a volume

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In my desktop all hard disk is taken as Ubuntu partition. I, want to shrink this by at least 50 GB to make another partition, to keep my personal data.

This is an image of my partitions

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How can I shrink this partition and create a new one?

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Get the gParted live dvd from http://gparted.org/livecd.php

    Burn it to a disk like you would with a normal Ubuntu installation.

    Boot from it and you get a gParted session where all your normal disks are not mounted so you can manipulate them (and shrinking is one of those options).

    Mind you: always make a backup of important files before messing with partitions.

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