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