I tried getting help in another post (SDA1 almost full. What do i do? [duplicate]) and was told it was a duplicate.everyone was helpful and i tried the suggestions as well as going to a post on how to partition in gparted.i found that i am not able to resize sda1 because there is no free space either behind or in front of it.thats assuming im understanding what it was i was reading.the picture of is in the above mentioned post. i do remember reading others suggesting "moving" partitions or adding space by (i think) partioniing free space and setting it up somehow to match the boot partition? does that sound right.my boot has under 2gigs left and still filling up.any ideas? thanks~
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I went back to the Gparted image in your old question SDA1 almost full. What do i do?
These are the steps to increase the size of sda1:
Step 1: Backup your data to an external medium.
Step 2: Boot from the Live DVD/USB and use the Try Ubuntu without installing option.
Disable Swap: Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and enter
sudo swapoff -a
Then open Gparted. Make sure the correct drive is selected at the top right corner.
Step 3: Select sda6 Make sure you have not selected the whole of sda2. And right click on it. From the context menu select Resize/Move. Drag the right edge with a black triangle to the left to make it smaller until you have created enough empty space you need for sda.
Step 4: This is a little tougher. Now select sda2 and repeat the same process and shrink sda2 as far as possible.
Step 5 Using the Resize/Move menu, move sda2 all the way to the right. This will create empty space to the right of sda1.
Step 6: Using the Resize/Move menu on sda1 expand it to fill up the empty space.
Step 7: Use the Green check mark button to apply all the changes. And wait a long time till everything is done.
Hope this helps
