Disk Space

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Recently i have turned my base os to kali, but now i have a disk space of maximum 75 gigs ,how can i increase it

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How big is your entire hard disk? Are you willing to eliminate other partitions of other operating systems? Or simply reduce the size of the other OS (Windows) and dedicate it to Kali?

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When i was using windows i had a space of 512gb or something if i remeber correctly,yeah i dont have other os so i am ready to use the full disk partition

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Ok, so if you do not care about the Windows partition and want to dedicate the whole disk to Kali, then you are currently like in my situation. having a 2TB disk, 1.5 is dedicated to Windows and 500 GB to Kali

First, install the GUI partition tool called GParted.

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install gparted -y

Once done, open the tool with a mouse click searching gparted from whatever desktop environment menu you have

You should be getting something like the following. The 1.34 TB is the Windows partition. you can simply right click on it and delete it.

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But the issue here is that you want to modify the Kali partition while you are running Kali, and even if you delete the Windows partitions, you may not be able to extend your Kali partition to the size you want. I have a trick for this.

  1. Download Ventoy Download . Ventoy
  2. Download Hiren’s Boot CD https://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/HBCD_PE_x64.iso
  3. Get a USB stick with at least 4 GB size
  4. Exttract Ventoy and run it. Let it format your USB stick
  5. Copy the Hiren’s Boot CD to the root of the USB stick (yes, simply copy and paste the ISO there
  6. Restart your PC and enter the BIOS/UEFI. Here you need to make sure that SECURE BOOT is DISABLED. This is needed to be able to boot from the USB stick otherwise it will not work.
  7. Depending on your computer make and model, you may also want to change the boot sequence to include booting from an external USB storage
  8. Boot into the USB stick, on the VENTOY welcome screen, select the only ISO you have, i.e. Hiren’s Boot CD

I will continue my comment after I reboot into my Ventoy and take some screenshots… stay tuned

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looks that I overlooked the issue! From Hiren’s Boot CD I can manage and play with the partitions, but I am not able to EXTEND the Kali partition rather than create a new EXT4 partition for Kali. I was sure there was a way to extend the existing Kali EXT4 partition but I cannot do it!

Maybe someone else can shed more lights?

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