GParted help please

[notyootoo]

Hi all
This is my first post here so please be kind
I am having difficulty working out how to reduce the size of my dual boot windows 10 partition to allow increasing the linux partition. Any advice with the steps to do it would be much appreciated.


Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 18.3GB 18.3GB primary ntfs msftres
2 18.3GB 18.4GB 105MB primary ntfs
3 18.4GB 233GB 214GB primary ntfs boot
4 233GB 750GB 517GB extended lba
5 233GB 562GB 329GB logical ntfs
6 562GB 563GB 538MB logical fat32
7 563GB 750GB 187GB logical ext4

[Pierre]

Hi notyootoo ,
welcome to our forum.


in order to reduce SDA5 for use by the Linux System in SDA7,
then you really should use the Windows based Disk Manager:
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-open-di ... nt-2626080
in order to reduce the space used by SDA5 . . . once that is done,

- you can then use the Gparted program on the LinuxMint Live Media,
to adjust the partition size(s) somewhat.

NB: SDA3 & SDA5 should appear as C: drive & D: drive .. respectively.
in the windows disk management program.

[all41]

Use windows to modify NTFS partitons--ane be happy

[AndyMH]

You are only using 15GiB of 174GiB in mint so have no immediate need to increase the size of your mint / partition, unless you are planning to copy lots of large files into it.

I always modify the win C: partition with win's disk management utilities (just in case) but you should be okay using gparted to reduce the size of sda5. You will need to move sda6 left before you can move sda7 left and increase its size.

When you make changes in gparted you get a window at the bottom saying what has to be done. The changes do not happen until you do edit > apply all operations.