16.04 is installed alongside Windows. I will free space for 16.04 by shrinking the Windows partition. I understand that it is necessary to boot from a CD \ USB and use a tool like partimage to reallocate disk space.
When resizing the 16.04 partition gParted provided a warning:
Moving a partition might cause your operating system to fail to boot
- What can be done before reallocating diskspace (via Gparted) to prevent boot failure?
- After resizing, what tasks must be performed to configure 16.04 to use the added diskspace?
EPILOGUE
Results include 16.04 indicating in the file manager that there is now 25GB (previously 13GB).
More information on the original state is documented (click here)
The Windows partition was shrunk with the diskmgmt.msc console.. gParted was used to resize (expand) the Ubuntu partition: originally 13GB.
$ sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 1024000 500M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 1026048 381746822 380720775 181.6G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 467251200 468858879 1607680 785M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda4 381747200 467251199 85504000 40.8G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 381749248 433881087 52131840 24.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 433883136 467251199 33368064 15.9G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
A successful chkdsk was performed on Windows and indicated "no problems found and no futher action required"
Best Answer
Short answers:
gparted
message is misleading as it pertains only for OS booted with lilo, which is not used anymore on modern linux distro where Grub 2 is used most of the time.So you have nothing to do before reallocating disk space. And ubuntu will automatically used the space added during that process. So again nothing to do there.