Easy Guide to Resizing Linux Partitions Using GParted

Right-click on the ext4 partition you want to resize and select “Resize/Move.” In the Resize/Move dialog, you can adjust the size of the filesystem by dragging ...

You cannot resize your / partition booting normally - to make changes you have to unmount it and you cannot unmount your / partition. Boot your mint install ...

Easy Guide to Resizing Linux Partitions Using GParted · Step 1: Create a bootable pen drive · Step 2: Boot from the USB and click on Try Ubuntu ...

1 - the 2 other devices are the LVM logical volumes. /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root being your root partition /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap ...

There are three steps to make: alter your partition table so sda2 ends at end of disk; reread the partition table (will require a reboot) ...

Move the swap partition to occupy the last 8GB of the disk, and then expand /dev/sda1 to fill the unallocated space in the middle.

Just boot your system as normal, then from a terminal window do: sudo lvextend -L+20G -r /dev/mapper/centos-root # resize the LV and the underlying fs.

Some filesystems can be resized when mounted and ext4 is one of them, but you don't want to just resize it, you also need to move the entire partition to the ...

Grow your partition to take up that space. You could do that with the disk utility you have there, or you could do it with GParted.

Use gparted from a Live USB, if you need to mess with system partitions. You normally can't alter a mounted Filesystem or in use partition.