How to resize the root partition of VM by gparted

You can resize the root partition on Ubuntu by booting from the installation disk (a live USB) and using a partition editor like gparted, which is available in the live environment, to adjust the size of your root partition directly on your system disk

• First, resize the disk size from virtual infrastructure (VMware, KVM)
• Boot from the installation disk (i.e. Ubuntu), and run gparted
• Select the partition to resize, and choose resize icon

• Drag the bar to the maximum size

Click “Apply All Operations”

• Click “Apply”

• See the completed operations. Eject the boot disk