The HDD mounts fine and I can access everything on it as expected, but somehow I can't erase the old partitions within the extended partition even when its unmounted. The only partition I want to have left in the old HDD is the old /home, so that I can make that the /home for the new system.
I've used Linux for quite some time and I'm fairly familiar with its workings, but I'm still just an end user and English is not my primary language (thanks Firefox for the spellchecker...). I understand English well, but I'm at loss when it comes to abbreviations, slang and jargon (hence my stiff language). Additionally I'm not at all proficient in LVM and didn't even know about its existence before I installed Mint 18 on the old computer and was prompted if I wanted to use it, and with some old partitioning problems in the back of my head I was seduced by the description "to make later changes in the partitions easier". The tools I've tried to use is system-config-lvm, Gparted and of course the command line for the snippets here. I prefer GUI's whenever possible.
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me@my_computer ~ $ sudo pvs
[sudo] password for me:
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda3 mint-vg lvm2 a-- 118,26g 0
/dev/sdb5 mint-vg lvm2 a-- 698,16g 0
me@my_computer ~ $ sudo vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
mint-vg 1 3 0 wz--n- 698,16g 0
mint-vg 1 2 0 wz--n- 118,26g 0
me@my_computer ~ $ sudo lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
home mint-vg -wi-a----- 630,00g
root mint-vg -wi------- 60,27g
root mint-vg -wi-ao---- 110,80g
swap_1 mint-vg -wi------- 7,88g
swap_1 mint-vg -wi-ao---- 7,46g
me@my_computer ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 119,2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 91C7342C-730B-457B-A46B-C951E3667FF7
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 2050047 999424 488M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 2050048 250068991 248018944 118,3G Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 698,7 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x77f897a3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb2 1001470 1465147391 1464145922 698,2G 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1001472 1465147391 1464145920 698,2G 8e Linux LVM
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Disk /dev/mapper/mint--vg-root: 110,8 GiB, 118975627264 bytes, 232374272 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mint--vg-swap_1: 7,5 GiB, 8006926336 bytes, 15638528 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/mint--vg-home: 630 GiB, 676457349120 bytes, 1321205760 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
system-config-lvm shows all the volumes, both physical and logical, as expected, but I don't seem to be able to single them out. In the physical view I can see which volumes I wish to delete, but in that view I don't seem to be able to do just that. In the logical view I can edit the properties including deleting (presumably - there is a button for it but I havn't tried it...) but in that view I can't differentiate the root or swap in the old HDD - which i want to delete - from the ones in the new SSD - which I want to keep. (Ok, the swap is no big deal, easy enough to replace, but the root!)
I'd greatly appreciate any help!
Edit: SOLVED:
By looking closer at the numbers presented by the commands pvs and lvs and comparing them I found that I could deduce the size of the partitions I wished to delete, and those where in fact the partitions that where shown in logical view of system-config-lvm. I'm really sorry if it seems like I didn't empty all options before asking for help, but I really thought that the ones shown was some kind of conglomerate of all the physical volumes with the same name. After all, where else would the ones from sda3 go otherwise? But since it was only the ones in sdb5, I deleted them. I suppose that it was just the ones that were in an unmounted drive and therefore editable? For why else would not the ones in sda3 be visible? If someone have another suggestion, please correct me - I'm just guessing here...