12-23-2014, 02:52 AM
SweetAction22,
Looking at your screenshot, your original problem with not being able to change things is because you can't manipulate partitions that are currently mounted. The picture shows those lock icons next to your Linux partitions, so I'm guessing you were doing this while logged into the system.
You need to boot computer with a live DVD and run GParted from there. Right-click the Swap partition, choose "Swapoff", then you'll be able to do whatever you want with the partitions. You should be able to extend the boundary of the extended partition (/dev/sda2) all the way to the left first; then do same for the root partition within it (/dev/sda5).
Make sure you've got important stuff backed up off the disk first, just in case something goes wrong.
Looking at your screenshot, your original problem with not being able to change things is because you can't manipulate partitions that are currently mounted. The picture shows those lock icons next to your Linux partitions, so I'm guessing you were doing this while logged into the system.
You need to boot computer with a live DVD and run GParted from there. Right-click the Swap partition, choose "Swapoff", then you'll be able to do whatever you want with the partitions. You should be able to extend the boundary of the extended partition (/dev/sda2) all the way to the left first; then do same for the root partition within it (/dev/sda5).
Make sure you've got important stuff backed up off the disk first, just in case something goes wrong.
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