How to increase disk space in Wubi (Ubuntu via windows)?

Posted by Maleesh on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Maleesh
Published on 2010-03-31T05:58:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 6:03 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 430

Filed under:

ubuntu-9.04

|

wubi

|

windows-7

Hi all!

I installed Ubuntu via Windows (7). I allocated only 8 GB space to it, but unfortunately now I want more space without reinstalling or creating another partition. Is there any way to increase the disk space in the Ubuntu ? Please help me to figure it out ? THanks...

Regards Maleesh

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about ubuntu-9.04

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 12.04.2 to Ubuntu 12.04.3

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04.2 32bit. I installed it using LiveCD. Tomorrow, 23rd August 2013,Ubuntu 12.04.3 is released. I want to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04.2 to Ubuntu 12.04.3 without using any LiveCD. Is it possible? If so please suggest me how can I do. Actually while using Ubuntu 12.04… >>> More
Cannot access Ubuntu 10/04 after reinstalling Windows

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I had Windows Vista Home Premium on HP pavilion desktop. I partitioned the disk for Ubuntu and a swap disk partition and then I installed Ubuntu 10.04. When I would start my computer, I would be given a choice to start Windows or Ubuntu. Today I reinstalled Windows, and now the menu has disappeared… >>> More
Dual head setup for Ubuntu 10.04.1 and Windows XP Pro with same hardware configuration

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Hello. I have a Dell OptiPlex 360 workstation at work, with 2 x ATI RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] graphics cards installed, which are attached to two identical 19" HII flat panel monitors. I'm using the open source Radeon driver with Ubuntu, and the proprietary drivers with Windows. The good news is that… >>> More
Why Ubuntu Server asks to insert a CD-ROM when installed from PXE?

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I set up a PXE server which hosts both Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu Desktop is installed successfully from PXE. Ubuntu Server seems to successfully load vmlinuz and initrd.gz, asks for the language, then the location, then the keyboard layout, and finally complains that it can't mount… >>> More
Wire VMWare Player NIC to a VLAN in Ubuntu 8.04.3

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, I've got VMWare Player 2.5.x installed on a Ubuntu 8.04.3 host running CentOS 5.3 running Cobbler. VMWare Player has two NICs (I actually took this image from an ESXi image, converted it to Player 2.x image via VMWare Standalone Converter). I've also setup a vlan (vlan5) on the host with 10… >>> More

Related posts about wubi

I can't install using Wubi due to permission denied error

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I can't install ubuntu 11.10 inside my windows 7. It shows permission denied while installation. It gave a log file having the following data: 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Running tasklist... 03-29 20:19 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running select_target_dir... 03-29 20:19 INFO WindowsBackend: Installing… >>> More
ubuntu-12.04-wubi-i386.tar.xz for the wubi installer

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I ran the wubi installer (from an extracted ubuntu ISO) and it downloads ubuntu-12.04-wubi-i386.tar.xz but it's slow and non-resumable so I cancelled it, found a mirror of the file online and downloaded it using Intenet download manager. Where should I be placing ubuntu-12.04-wubi-i386.tar.xz file… >>> More
Wubi without downloading ubuntu-12.04.1-wubi-i386.tar.xz

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I have a class of computational physics. I want to install Ubuntu on 24 systems. unfortunately our access to Internet is limited. On the other hand I do not like to make new partitions for Linux. So I have to use Wubi but Wubi needs a large file .i.e. "ubuntu-12.04.1-wubi-i386.tar.xz". Unfortunately… >>> More
Unable to uninstall or reinstall Ubuntu desktop

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
The uninstall-wubi option doesn't work. When I try reinstalling it they show an error and tells me to check "wubi 12.04 rev266" log Everything goes fine till the bottom which shows this There is another file or directory with this name. Please remove it before continuing. Traceback (most recent… >>> More
Permission denied error when trying to install with wubi

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I run into problem when tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 on Windows 7 using wubi installer . It downloads the image for sometime and ends up with the error that says Permission denied: for more details see the log file In the log it seems to be like DownloadError: Problem connecting to tracker -… >>> More