Category: IT Support

“Extend Volume” greyed out

Recently, one of my friends got back to me saying that he could not extend the C drive. Upon checking, we figured out that the “Recovery” partition was sitting between the System partition and the Unallocated space.

Basically, the “Recovery” partition was blocking the feature. In order to fix this, we had to delete the “Recovery” partition. Will look at how we can fix the issue in a few simple steps. 

[Note: all the commands are in Bold Italic]

Step 01: Open an elevated command prompt and enter diskpart

Step 02: Select the relevant Disk and list the partitions 

select disk 0

list partitions

Step 03: Upon confirming, select the recovery partition (in my case, it is Partition 3)

Step 04: After selecting the correct partition, delete the partition. delete  partition  override

Step 05: Extend the volume using either the command extend or disk management in GUI. 

Assign a static IP on Ubuntu server 20

Ubuntu 17 and later versions control the networking by a feature called “Netplan“. The configuration files are located in the /etc/netplan. Under the directory, you will find either 50-cloud-init.yaml or 00-installer-config.yaml 

Step 01: First locate the configuration file under /etc/netplan

Step 02: In my enviornment, the file is 00-installer-config.yaml. So, edit the configuration file with either nano or vim. sudo nano /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml

Step 03: Update the networking configuration as appropriately. A sample configuration will look like below

network:
ethernets:
enp0s3:
dhcp4: no
addresses: [192.168.2.150/24]
gateway4: 192.168.2.1
nameservers:
addresses: [8.8.8.8, 192.168.2.1]

Step 04: Save & exit the configuration editor. And then apply the netplan configuration. sudo netplan apply

Finally, reboot the server and verify the changes by running ifconfig or ip a