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I have a question that I'm sure someone on here can answer. i am dual booting windows 10 and manjaro linux and what i want to do is delete windows and keep linux on here but the problem i'm having is windows is on sda2 and linux is on sda5 and what i want to do is delete the windows partition and join the partitions together but i have a feeling that if i do that, linux won't boot because it's on sda5. i'm trying to figure out some way to work this because i have manjaro exactly how i want it and i don't want to have to reinstall it and do all of this over again. thanks for the help!
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I have a question that I'm sure someone on here can answer. i am dual booting windows 10 and manjaro linux and what i want to do is delete windows and keep linux on here but the problem i'm having is windows is on sda2 and linux is on sda5 and what i want to do is delete the windows partition and join the partitions together but i have a feeling that if i do that, linux won't boot because it's on sda5. i'm trying to figure out some way to work this because i have manjaro exactly how i want it and i don't want to have to reinstall it and do all of this over again. thanks for the help!
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I have a question that I'm sure someone on here can answer. i am dual booting windows 10 and manjaro linux and what i want to do is delete windows and keep linux on here but the problem i'm having is windows is on sda2 and linux is on sda5 and what i want to do is delete the windows partition and join the partitions together but i have a feeling that if i do that, linux won't boot because it's on sda5. i'm trying to figure out some way to work this because i have manjaro exactly how i want it and i don't want to have to reinstall it and do all of this over again. thanks for the help!
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I have a question that I'm sure someone on here can answer. i am dual booting windows 10 and manjaro linux and what i want to do is delete windows and keep linux on here but the problem i'm having is windows is on sda2 and linux is on sda5 and what i want to do is delete the windows partition and join the partitions together but i have a feeling that if i do that, linux won't boot because it's on sda5. i'm trying to figure out some way to work this because i have manjaro exactly how i want it and i don't want to have to reinstall it and do all of this over again. thanks for the help!
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Well, joining the partitions would be very complicated.
What would be easier is to format sda2 as ext4 and mount it in your Linux mount table separately. However, Windows (often) uses a separate partition for its boot-loaders - which is about 100MB or so. You can find it in the partition table of your drive. Merging this (small) partition with your sda2 main Windows partition should easily be possible.
But take care of where your current MBR (Master boot record) is located on your drive. Windows is very possessive in that regard. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new MBR (classic or GUID) which points to your sda5 Linux partition. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new boot-loader with grub.
Doing all of the above is not simple - and errors will not be easily forgiven. So I recommend a backup of all critical data before attempting this procedure.
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Whatever you do, first make a complete backup of your data and then verify it matches what's on your system's drive.
You can remove the Windows NTFS partition and reassign its space to an adjacent partition. However, Windows often has more than one partition, and please be careful not to remove the EFI partition or /boot.
Another critical issue is, where's GRUB2? If the GRUB2 configuration is lost, you won't be able to complete booting after removing the Windows partition(s). If you run mount and see something like this:
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,stripe=4,data=ordered)
You have grub2 installed in its own partition, as it should be.
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Well, joining the partitions would be very complicated.
What would be easier is to format sda2 as ext4 and mount it in your Linux mount table separately. However, Windows (often) uses a separate partition for its boot-loaders - which is about 100MB or so. You can find it in the partition table of your drive. Merging this (small) partition with your sda2 main Windows partition should easily be possible.
But take care of where your current MBR (Master boot record) is located on your drive. Windows is very possessive in that regard. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new MBR (classic or GUID) which points to your sda5 Linux partition. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new boot-loader with grub.
Doing all of the above is not simple - and errors will not be easily forgiven. So I recommend a backup of all critical data before attempting this procedure.
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Well, joining the partitions would be very complicated.
What would be easier is to format sda2 as ext4 and mount it in your Linux mount table separately. However, Windows (often) uses a separate partition for its boot-loaders - which is about 100MB or so. You can find it in the partition table of your drive. Merging this (small) partition with your sda2 main Windows partition should easily be possible.
But take care of where your current MBR (Master boot record) is located on your drive. Windows is very possessive in that regard. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new MBR (classic or GUID) which points to your sda5 Linux partition. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new boot-loader with grub.
Doing all of the above is not simple - and errors will not be easily forgiven. So I recommend a backup of all critical data before attempting this procedure.
answered 7 hours ago
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Well, joining the partitions would be very complicated.
What would be easier is to format sda2 as ext4 and mount it in your Linux mount table separately. However, Windows (often) uses a separate partition for its boot-loaders - which is about 100MB or so. You can find it in the partition table of your drive. Merging this (small) partition with your sda2 main Windows partition should easily be possible.
But take care of where your current MBR (Master boot record) is located on your drive. Windows is very possessive in that regard. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new MBR (classic or GUID) which points to your sda5 Linux partition. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new boot-loader with grub.
Doing all of the above is not simple - and errors will not be easily forgiven. So I recommend a backup of all critical data before attempting this procedure.
answered 7 hours ago
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Well, joining the partitions would be very complicated.
What would be easier is to format sda2 as ext4 and mount it in your Linux mount table separately. However, Windows (often) uses a separate partition for its boot-loaders - which is about 100MB or so. You can find it in the partition table of your drive. Merging this (small) partition with your sda2 main Windows partition should easily be possible.
But take care of where your current MBR (Master boot record) is located on your drive. Windows is very possessive in that regard. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new MBR (classic or GUID) which points to your sda5 Linux partition. So after removing Windows, you'll have to reinstall a new boot-loader with grub.
Doing all of the above is not simple - and errors will not be easily forgiven. So I recommend a backup of all critical data before attempting this procedure.
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Whatever you do, first make a complete backup of your data and then verify it matches what's on your system's drive.
You can remove the Windows NTFS partition and reassign its space to an adjacent partition. However, Windows often has more than one partition, and please be careful not to remove the EFI partition or /boot.
Another critical issue is, where's GRUB2? If the GRUB2 configuration is lost, you won't be able to complete booting after removing the Windows partition(s). If you run mount and see something like this:
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,stripe=4,data=ordered)
You have grub2 installed in its own partition, as it should be.
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Whatever you do, first make a complete backup of your data and then verify it matches what's on your system's drive.
You can remove the Windows NTFS partition and reassign its space to an adjacent partition. However, Windows often has more than one partition, and please be careful not to remove the EFI partition or /boot.
Another critical issue is, where's GRUB2? If the GRUB2 configuration is lost, you won't be able to complete booting after removing the Windows partition(s). If you run mount and see something like this:
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,stripe=4,data=ordered)
You have grub2 installed in its own partition, as it should be.
answered 7 hours ago
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Whatever you do, first make a complete backup of your data and then verify it matches what's on your system's drive.
You can remove the Windows NTFS partition and reassign its space to an adjacent partition. However, Windows often has more than one partition, and please be careful not to remove the EFI partition or /boot.
Another critical issue is, where's GRUB2? If the GRUB2 configuration is lost, you won't be able to complete booting after removing the Windows partition(s). If you run mount and see something like this:
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,stripe=4,data=ordered)
You have grub2 installed in its own partition, as it should be.
answered 7 hours ago
K7AAYK7AAY
3,93421638
Whatever you do, first make a complete backup of your data and then verify it matches what's on your system's drive.
You can remove the Windows NTFS partition and reassign its space to an adjacent partition. However, Windows often has more than one partition, and please be careful not to remove the EFI partition or /boot.
Another critical issue is, where's GRUB2? If the GRUB2 configuration is lost, you won't be able to complete booting after removing the Windows partition(s). If you run mount and see something like this:
/dev/sda5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,stripe=4,data=ordered)
You have grub2 installed in its own partition, as it should be.
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