Home / ubuntu / Questions / 741562
In Process
user292314
Asked: 2016-03-04 03:42:38 +0800 CST

Gparted Won't start due to a bug

  • 772

I want to extend my home partition size but Gparted won't start. I also tried live boot mode but the error is still there. Is there something wrong with my disk? I really need to add some space to my home folder so that I can run a Virtual Machine on my Ubuntu. If you know any solution to this problem I'd really appreciate your help.

Here is a screen shot of the error.

enter image description here

gparted

2 Answers

  1. This seems to be a bug in the current Gparted related to partitions with no space between them. See the discussion in

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1543704

    • 2

  2. You can try a few things.

    First make sure you have the latest install of gparted: 

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gparted

    If the issue remains you can always use the live version of gparted you can download this here.

    After downloading burn it to a cd or usb drive and boot the live version of gparted.

    Note: This bug is confirmed. Make sure you have the latest release.

    • 1