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I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 a few days ago on dual boot with Windows 7 (not using Wubi) and now I see that I am almost running out of space.

I used GParted on a live CD. Now, I have on my drive an unallocated partition which was an empty partition but I can't add it to the Ubuntu's partition. When I right-click the Ubuntu's partition all I can do is Manage flags, Information.

Heres is the output of df -h:

Filesystem  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 
/cow       1001M  66M  935M   7% / 
udev        990M  12K  990M   1% /dev 
tmpfs       201M 1.2M  200M   1% /run 
/dev/sr0    996M 996M     0 100% /cdrom 
/dev/loop0  953M 953M     0 100% /rofs 
none        4.0K    0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup 
tmpfs      1001M 1.3M 1000M   1% /tmp 
none        5.0M 4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock 
none       1001M  76K 1001M   1% /run/shm 
none        100M  72K  100M   1% /run/user

Output of sudo parted -l:

Model: ATA Hitachi HDS72103 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End    Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB  105MB   primary   ntfs            boot
 2      106MB   298GB  298GB   primary   ntfs
 3      298GB   320GB  22.2GB  extended                  lba
 5      298GB   312GB  14.0GB  logical   ntfs
 6      312GB   318GB  5961MB  logical   ext4
 7      318GB   320GB  2144MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)

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  1. As you can see in the screenshot, the extended partition (sda3) containing your Ubuntu partition (sda6) is locked; that's why you can't do what you want.

  2. To unlock the extended partition, you need to unlock the swap partition (sda6) by right clicking and selecting "swap off".

  3. Then you should be able to enlarge the Ubuntu partition to the left, and it is better to include all the available space there.

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