kalimochito67
New Member
Hi all,
The title might seem a bit silly, but was not sure how to phrase it properly.
I had a laptop with Windows and a few days ago I installed Ubuntu on it. My intention was to overwrite everything and only have Ubuntu - during the installation process I selected the overwrite option, not dual boot. Now, today I was playing a bit with my new OS and was checking the hard drive with fdisk. It told me that my disk is partitioned into 5, with Ubuntu only occupying 43 GB (out of a total of 256), and three of them belonging to Microsoft. My question is: did I do everything correctly, i.e. will Ubuntu take the currently Microsoft-occupied space when needed? Or did I create a partition where I only gave 43 GB to Ubuntu, forever and ever? Basically wondering if I need to re-install or not...
The output of fdisk is below:
/dev/sda1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 567296 406657826 406090531 193,7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 498479104 500117503 1638400 800M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5 406659072 498479103 91820032 43,8G Linux filesystem
Thanks a lot everyone!
The title might seem a bit silly, but was not sure how to phrase it properly.
I had a laptop with Windows and a few days ago I installed Ubuntu on it. My intention was to overwrite everything and only have Ubuntu - during the installation process I selected the overwrite option, not dual boot. Now, today I was playing a bit with my new OS and was checking the hard drive with fdisk. It told me that my disk is partitioned into 5, with Ubuntu only occupying 43 GB (out of a total of 256), and three of them belonging to Microsoft. My question is: did I do everything correctly, i.e. will Ubuntu take the currently Microsoft-occupied space when needed? Or did I create a partition where I only gave 43 GB to Ubuntu, forever and ever? Basically wondering if I need to re-install or not...
The output of fdisk is below:
/dev/sda1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/sda2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 567296 406657826 406090531 193,7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 498479104 500117503 1638400 800M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda5 406659072 498479103 91820032 43,8G Linux filesystem
Thanks a lot everyone!