Gparted - a graphical utility to re-partion your drive

GParted Suppose you have a dual boot system of Windows and a linux operating system and you need to repartition the drive or maybe expand the storage on the linux os, with Gparted you can do this Requirements A USB stick (gen 3 with a live os environment). Learn how to get a usb with a live OS running from here Enough storage on your machine Setting up the windows machine Open disk manager Select the disk where you need to expand the linux os Click shrink Live booting into OS Shutdown the PC Use the live boot usb environment, doesn’t matter what sort of linux OS you are running. But we are assuming you are using arch as per the manual. Install gparted via this command 1 sudo pacman -Syu gparted Working with gparted Open the application Click on the the EFI Partition Right click and press Resize/Move Move the storage unit towards the left side Ensure the EFI Partiton is just moved and not resized Click on the Arch partition Right click and press Resize/Move Expand the storage space to consume all of the unallocated storage space Verify and click apply WARNING: Data corruption may occur if incorrectly done, always back up your data ^ image addition pending ...

August 29, 2026 · 2 min · 256 words · Aum Pauskar