Unable to Shrink ubuntu root partition on vmware

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I am Using Ubuntu 14.04 Server as VMware Guest OS. I have allocated 200 GB Disk space of thin provision disk. I only using 100 Gb of Disk space. I need shrink the remaining Disk space. I tried with Gparted but in that not showing free space and partition is locked icon.

Kindly help us to resolve the issue. thanks in advance Jagadeesh

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Angel Bochev On BEST ANSWER

You can't shrink it with gparted. Use the lvm tools instead. Here is a useful link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/124465/how-do-i-shrink-the-root-logical-volume-lv-on-lvm