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Allocating entire hard drive to Linux Lite
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Hi pauloz,


Just adding my contribution to try to clarify things for you.

If you do decide on a completely fresh install to replace the existing Lite 2.2 installation, the installer will allocate the full hard drive to LL apart from a small Linux swap partition which it will set up.  It would give you a tidier installation, with LL on sda1.  However, it shouldn't be necessary to do this if you prefer to keep your current installation.

Your present LL partition, being sda6, is a logical partition within an extended partition, as gold_finger said, since the file system will only support 4 primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition.  An extended partition can contain many logical partitions.  I think your swap partition will also be a logical partition.

You will need to boot and work from the live CD or USB stick that you used to install LL initially, as you can't resize your LL partition when that system is running.  I think you will then find that your sda1, sda6 etc partitions will appear as sdb1, sdb6, etc when you look at them in gparted (listed as "Partition Drives" in LL System menu).

Working in gparted, you will need to:
- Ensure all the partitions are unmounted.
- Select the linux-swap partition, right click and select Swapoff.
- If your "unallocated partition" is shown as a grey block with the word "unallocated" in gparted, then it is unallocated space rather than a partition.  If, on the other hand, it is an unused partition, then you should delete it.
- Select the extended partition and use the Resize/Move option to extend it into the unallocated space.
- Select your LL partition[size=1em] and use the Resize/Move option to extend it into the resultant free space within the extended partition.[/size]

[size=1em]Having said all that, if I were you I would create a large separate data partition for all your files and reduce the size of your LL partition to about 10 or 15Gb.  The process is similar in principle to that described above, but if you needed more help I'm sure you'd only nee[/size][size=1em]d to ask.[/size]

[size=1em]Good luck![/size]
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Re: Allocating entire hard drive to Linux Lite - by bobw - 02-11-2015, 08:38 PM

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