[ubuntu] Primary / Boot Partition not showing in GParted, Ubuntu 24.04 VirtualBox

Hi All,


I'm a beginner to VirtualBox and Ubuntu and I've been stuck on this problem all day, wondering if anyone can help.

I've installed and opened a new Ubuntu VM on my Windows 11 laptop, and have encountered what I think is a common problem of the "actual" disk space not being as much as the "virtual" disk space that I had specified during installation. I had set the disk space to about 90GB and I'm seeing a system volume of about 2GB.

I've looked at a few tutorials, all of which describe using GParted to resize the primary partition to include the currently unallocated disk space. The issue which I have is that when I open GParted no partitions show at all apart from the unallocated disk space. The partition containing the Ubuntu system folders is not there and so I can't resize it. See image below.




I have managed to create a new partition table and a new partition (I just used the default ext4 for this?) but this shows in devices as a separate volume from the boot/system volume.

I need to install some software to the system folders and therefore have to increase the actual disk space of the system partition/volume, does anyone know how I can do this, or suggest why this partition is not showing in GParted?


Thanks!
John

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