How to increase the disk space of Ubuntu 13.04 installed besides Windows 7

Question

I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 besides Windows 7 with initial space allocated as 18.2 GB. Now I get a warning to increase the disk space and I wanted to increase the disk space for Ubuntu. My total hard disk space is 320 GB and as seen from other posts, when I execute the following command in the terminal :

sudo fdisk -l

I receive the following response

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcfc64c27

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048     3074047     1536000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2         3074048   596467711   296696832    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       596467712   625139711    14336000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

I ran df command and got he below response :

xxx@ubuntu:~$ df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0      17753424 14090256   2754676  84% /
none                   4        0         4   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev             1861852        8   1861844   1% /dev
tmpfs             374280      900    373380   1% /run
none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
none             1871396      156   1871240   1% /run/shm
none              102400       28    102372   1% /run/user
/dev/sda2      296696828 58764616 237932212  20% /host

It seems like installed in /dev/loop0 but not showing up in Gparted.

Please help me increase the disk space for Ubuntu 13.04. Note : I coudn't see any GParted disk partitioner to make use of as observed in other threads.

Solution 1

You're using Wubi, that's why a linux filesystem is not apparent.

There are a couple of methods for resizing Wubi.

This has to be run from within a live environment.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeWubiDisk

You can also use a slightly different method

The first method here can be used from within the wubi environment

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeandDuplicateWubiDisk#Automated_resize

The second method here needs to run from a live environment

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ResizeandDuplicateWubiDisk#Manual_resize

Also see here How do I give Ubuntu more space (when installed inside Windows 7 (via wubi))?

Solution 2

You installed ubuntu through wubi. For resizing the space allocated for ubuntu installed through wubi,you must refer this.

And also refer to this to know how much of space did wubi takes from the HDD.

Comments

[Avinash Raj]

Install gparted on your ubuntu,take a screenshot of gparted,upload it to imgur and provide the link.You must need gparted live disk to resize your partition.

[annunarcist]

imgur.com/iFXgfn3

[Avinash Raj]

In which partition did you installed ubuntu?

[annunarcist]

xxx@ubuntu:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/loop0 17753424 14090256 2754676 84% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 1861852 8 1861844 1% /dev tmpfs 374280 900 373380 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 1871396 156 1871240 1% /run/shm none 102400 28 102372 1% /run/user /dev/sda2 296696828 58764616 237932212 20% /host It seems like installed in /dev/loop0 but not showing in Gparted

[annunarcist]

Can I resize to 100 GB (and I have enough 100 GB unused space), but when I give the command as : sudo bash wubi-resize.sh 100 I get a warning as : wubi-resize.sh: The new disk cannot exceed 32 GB unless the wubi-resize.sh: --max-override option is used (not recommended). Is it advisable to resize it to 100 GB?

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I'd not see the point tbh - you can access the windows space afaik through /hosts. My normal ubuntu installs rarely get above 10Gb - but I do store data elsewhere.