Ciao,
I would appreciate some advice on how to automatically mount two partitions from which I have recently removed Windows 7, they are /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdb5 as shown below
Also, should it be possible to merge /dev/sdb5 with /dev/sdb6 and if so please explain how this is done.
I have searched for answers to these questions but haven't found anything that seems to be fully relevant.
Best regards
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Probably you will need to do all this from a live USB system, though it is impossible to know what all those partitions really are at the moment.
Is the large ext4 partition the root partition of your Mint installation? If so you will definitely need to do all this from a live system with all partitions unmounted as you can not act on any mounted partitions using gparted.
To clarify things a bit more show us the output of these three commands
Probably you will need to do all this from a live USB system
No, you will need to do this from a live usb. e.g your mint install stick. sdb6 is your / partition and you can't change that booting normally. Using gparted, you would need to delete sdb5 and then extend sdb6 into the space created. You have over 130GB of stuff in sdb6, it will take a long time.
It will work, but make sure you have a backup first.
Looks like a 320GB HDD, I'd be tempted to do a fresh install. You are booting in legacy mode, so could just have one single ext4 partition using the whole drive.
Just to be sure what we are dealing with here, can you tell us what is on /dev/sda.
All the partitions shown in your image are on /dev/sdb which normally means there is another phtsical disk in your system which could have other Linux partitions, perhaps even a root partition of the OS you are running.
This is precisely why I asked you to show us the output of those three commands.
Thanks for your responses, the outputs from the three commands follow below and the attached file is a screenshot of the partitions prior to my removal of Windows 7.
mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=915672k,nr_inodes=228918,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=189804k,mode=755)
/dev/sdb6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=41,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=13087)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_10823.snap on /snap/core/10823 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/dotnet-sdk_107.snap on /snap/dotnet-sdk/107 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/midori_550.snap on /snap/midori/550 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_1944.snap on /snap/core18/1944 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/midori_451.snap on /snap/midori/451 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_10583.snap on /snap/core/10583 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/dotnet-sdk_112.snap on /snap/dotnet-sdk/112 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_1988.snap on /snap/core18/1988 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=189800k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
With regard to my original query I think the solution that I will adopt is your suggestion of a fresh install, this seems to me to be the simplest and best solution.
Is a swap file or a swap partition recommended, I ask because the installation that I have just done did not automatically create a swap partition so I made one manually.
ouzel wrote: ⤴Sat Feb 20, 2021 1:51 pm
I have done a fresh install of Mint 20.1 and changed the partitions using the installation DVD; many thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
My remaining question is regarding a swap file or a swap partition; I have looked at the link below but there does not seem to be an agreed conclusion
Is a swap file or a swap partition recommended, I ask because the installation that I have just done did not automatically create a swap partition so I made one manually.
Best regards
If it did not create a swap partition it will have created a swap file, so don't worry.
I can't remember when a swap file became the default instead of a partition but it's been doing so for for a few releases now.
To double check run command
I've still got a swap partition, but only because I've always had one. Automatically using a swap file was introduced in LM19. I think the only reason to have a swap partition now is if you want to hibernate (which I don't).
ouzel wrote: ⤴Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:04 pm
Ciao,
I would appreciate some advice on how to automatically mount two partitions from which I have recently removed Windows 7, they are /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdb5 as shown belowno win7 partitions not mounted 17 feb 2021.png
Also, should it be possible to merge /dev/sdb5 with /dev/sdb6 and if so please explain how this is done.
I have searched for answers to these questions but haven't found anything that seems to be fully relevant.
Best regards
For the new people that are on the forum reading. I had this problem, none of my partition on my 10tb sata drive were showing up. I went on a hunch to my user account and I was on the sambashare group. Then I opened Synaptic and I was right, the program samba that was around in 2016 when I first used Mint Cinnamon was not installed even thought the group was created. Likely just an oversite on the setup not having samba installed. DO NOT if running xfce or cinnamon desktop install the samba2k since I looked and it installs a lot of files starting with K so I assume from experience that they are kde files and might not play so well with other desktops. I saw my drives in lsblk and gparted so I installed samba rebooted and they were on the desktop after a necessary reboot.
This is so much safer for a new user than to edit the fstab and forbid they have a mistype or choose wrong on something or type ro instead of rw on a partition and have no idea that was why they cannot access that partition. The samba install is the mistake resistant way I chose. I'm just putting this out for the new people that have come from windows and welcome to linux.
Warning! Be careful. Before using GParted it is highly recommended the backup all your data! 
