Boot to a LiveCD or LiveUSB drive in “try me” mode. Resize your partitions (right click, click resize, follow the instructions).

To resize a partition:

• Select an unmounted partition.
• Choose: Partition → Resize/Move.
• Adjust the size of the partition.
• Specify the alignment of the partition.

2 Working With GParted

• Shut down your Linux system and make it boot from the GParted Live-CD.
• In the next step I want to shrink /dev/hda1, so I mark it and click on Resize/Move.
• Click on the right black arrow and drag it until the partition has its new (desired) size, then click on the Resize/Move button:

Procedure

• Unmount the partition:
• Run fdisk disk_name.
• Check the partition number you wish to delete with the p.
• Use the option d to delete a partition.
• Use the option n to create a new partition.
• Check the partition table to ensure that the partitions are created as required using the p option.

How to Extend Volume Group and Reduce Logical Volume

• To Create new partition Press n.
• Choose primary partition use p.
• Choose which number of partition to be selected to create the primary partition.
• Press 1 if any other disk available.
• Change the type using t.
• Type 8e to change the partition type to Linux LVM.

To expand it, you need unallocated space after it, but inside the extended partition. You have unallocated space after the extended partition, so you have to expand the extended partition to move the unallocated space into the extended partition, then you can expand the swap partition.8 Linux ‘Parted’ Commands to Create, Resize and Rescue Disk Partitions. Parted is a famous command line tool that allows you to easily manage hard disk partitions. To make modifications on a disk partition it must not be in use. If you need to work on primary partition, you may boot into rescue mode.Open a Command Prompt window, on your host system and set the path to your VirtualBox installation. Next we need to resize the Linux partition to use the space of the larger vdi file. Then download the gparted-live-0.26.1-4-i686-pae.iso file. Start the VirtualBox Manager and create a new Linux VM.

How do I change partition size in Ubuntu?

How to Resize Partitions with the Ubuntu or GParted Live CD

1. Boot either a Ubuntu or GParted Live CD.
2. Open GParted.
3. Right-click on the partition you wish to shrink.
4. Select Resize.
5. Shrink or Delete the target partition (make sure you leave at least a couple of GB for an OS to play with, especially Windows, unless you’re deleting it completely).

How do I resize a partition?

Right-click the Windows Start menu and choose Disk Management. Step 2. Select the partition you want to resize and right-click, choose Extend Volume feature or Shrink Volume feature to resize the partition.