Hi,
I have a triple boot system (windows xp, mint13 and mint14) installed in this order. I'd like to remove mint13 but am unsure about how to proceed. I think that from within mint 14 I could use gparted to delete the partition where mint 13 is installed and then add the new hard disk space to the partition of mint14. Is this correct or could this cause problems with grub? Did I provide enough information?
Thanks,
Eelke
uninstalling mint13 from within mint14
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Re: uninstalling mint13 from within mint14
You'll mess things up if you delete the partitionsEelke wrote:Hi,
I have a triple boot system (windows xp, mint13 and mint14) installed in this order. I'd like to remove mint13 but am unsure about how to proceed. I think that from within mint 14 I could use gparted to delete the partition where mint 13 is installed and then add the new hard disk space to the partition of mint14. Is this correct or could this cause problems with grub? Did I provide enough information?
Thanks,
Eelke
If you really need the space, you may be able to do something. But we'd need to see a screen of your partitions in Gparted and also thei
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sudo fdisk -l
Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon
Re: uninstalling mint13 from within mint14
Thanks,
sda5 holds mint13 and is the space that I'd like to merge with sda6 (which holds mint14):
Regards,
Eelke
sda5 holds mint13 and is the space that I'd like to merge with sda6 (which holds mint14):
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00092949
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 408068096 561041407 76486656 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 561041408 976773119 207865856 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 2046 391622655 195810305 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 391622656 408068095 8222720 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 2048 301588581 150793267 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 301590528 391622655 45016064 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdf: 32.1 GB, 32128368640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3906 cylinders, total 62750720 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0057f74a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 * 128 62750719 31375296 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Eelke
Re: uninstalling mint13 from within mint14
I see 2 options
1. From Mint 14: format sda5 and use it as is as a kind of store or
2. Use the Mint dvd not your installed system to: format sda5 in Gparted, then shrink sda5 to as small as it will allow, Apply this, then resize sda6 to take up the unallocated space made free by shrinking sda5 and Apply.
You are left with a small defunct sda5, but it keeps the partition table in order.
Not that pretty and not my choice, but it will get you what you want.
In future, plan ahead better....
Backup important files before you do the above
1. From Mint 14: format sda5 and use it as is as a kind of store or
2. Use the Mint dvd not your installed system to: format sda5 in Gparted, then shrink sda5 to as small as it will allow, Apply this, then resize sda6 to take up the unallocated space made free by shrinking sda5 and Apply.
You are left with a small defunct sda5, but it keeps the partition table in order.
Not that pretty and not my choice, but it will get you what you want.
In future, plan ahead better....
Backup important files before you do the above
Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon