How can I make separate partition (to install windows 7) using ubuntu.
I tried to use Gparted but there is a little key icon on my ubuntu partition therefore i cant make a new partition.
Ubuntu – Gparted has a little key icon on the Ubuntu partition so I can not resize it
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Put simply, no, you can't. GParted needs to clean up the partitions as best it can in order to ensure a safe and successful resize.
Here is a longer explanation I found on the GParted forums:
The problem with this is that it requires the file system to be in a definitiely clean state - otherwise, the resize operations (especially shrinking) would destroy data. While this is relatively easy to ensure for the typical Linux file systems (GParted brings the tools required to check and fix them with it on the Live media), it is not so easy for third-parts file systems like NTFS: For these file systems, you often need to boot the "native" operating system for these file systems and perform some magic there. In addition to this, even some of the Linux file systems can not be moved this way, since there is no known way to shrink them (jfs / XFS / Reiser4) - and to enlarge them, they need to be mounted, and growing must be done on-line (jfs / XFS). Depending on your machine, this is not a very clever idea - maybe you perform the resize operations on a system with very little RAM (and modern file systems can consume huge amounts of memory).
Hope that answers your question.
- Download Gparted Live CD .iso from here and burn it using Brasero
- Boot from it
- skip language
- To start up the default graphical environment Press Enter
- That's is Now start Gparted
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That key icon indicates that the partition you are trying to modify is currently under use. In order to modify that/those partition/s you have to boot up from a live CD. Then you will be able to modify those partitions. But, be sure to backup your data as it can lead to data loss. But this case is very rare.