waxmaster_c
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It's been almost a month since i installed Linux and i came to a conclusion than i want to stay on it and wipe away Windows into oblivion forever. The only questions are how can i do it, what are the nessecary steps, and how can i do it safely without causing any problems.
I was googling but i am asking here because google isn't much of a help. It mostly displays outdated guides, or gets me guides on how to delete ubuntu and keep windows.
My SSD in it's current state has 1 TB of memory, of which 100 gigs are reserved for the Linux partition.
I already transferred all of my data over to Linux, and only games are left on windows (they can be wiped too i don't really care).
The reasons for deciding this is that Linux is much more stable than i thought, gaming support is much better than i thought (i am not a hardcore gamer anyways), it works flawlessly except for the laptop built-in speakers which i mentioned (i can live without those), i learned a lot about the command line, i learned the Synaptic and so on. The whole system simply fits me better as a person. It fulfilled my inner geek wishes and ultimately it was the answer i'v been looking for. I have Mint Cinnamon 20.2, kernel 5.11, Grub bootloader.
I have Gparted installed and i am familiar with it but i am afraid of doing anything with it to avoid doing something stupid. Is it possible somehow to format the windows partition to ext4, and than merge it with the ext4 100 gigs linux partition, giving the entire SSD just to linux while keeping it's data? Because i spent almost a month setting it up, and configuring it to my liking, i really don't want all that work to vanish into thin air by having to reinstall linux agian after formatting the disk. Or can i simply store one timeshift somewhere else, format and wipe the entire disk, reinstall Mint and then just restore the Timeshift? I am no expert by any means.
The SSD has 5 current partitions :
100 gigs ext4 Linux
850 gigs ntfs windows
100 MB fat32 EFI system
16 MB "unknown" microsoft reserved
860 MB ntfs hidden partition
3 MB unallocated
An that's about it. Thanks in advance folks.
Peace out.
I was googling but i am asking here because google isn't much of a help. It mostly displays outdated guides, or gets me guides on how to delete ubuntu and keep windows.
My SSD in it's current state has 1 TB of memory, of which 100 gigs are reserved for the Linux partition.
I already transferred all of my data over to Linux, and only games are left on windows (they can be wiped too i don't really care).
The reasons for deciding this is that Linux is much more stable than i thought, gaming support is much better than i thought (i am not a hardcore gamer anyways), it works flawlessly except for the laptop built-in speakers which i mentioned (i can live without those), i learned a lot about the command line, i learned the Synaptic and so on. The whole system simply fits me better as a person. It fulfilled my inner geek wishes and ultimately it was the answer i'v been looking for. I have Mint Cinnamon 20.2, kernel 5.11, Grub bootloader.
I have Gparted installed and i am familiar with it but i am afraid of doing anything with it to avoid doing something stupid. Is it possible somehow to format the windows partition to ext4, and than merge it with the ext4 100 gigs linux partition, giving the entire SSD just to linux while keeping it's data? Because i spent almost a month setting it up, and configuring it to my liking, i really don't want all that work to vanish into thin air by having to reinstall linux agian after formatting the disk. Or can i simply store one timeshift somewhere else, format and wipe the entire disk, reinstall Mint and then just restore the Timeshift? I am no expert by any means.
The SSD has 5 current partitions :
100 gigs ext4 Linux
850 gigs ntfs windows
100 MB fat32 EFI system
16 MB "unknown" microsoft reserved
860 MB ntfs hidden partition
3 MB unallocated
An that's about it. Thanks in advance folks.
Peace out.