I recently installed Manjaro on a 20gb partition on my 500gb SSD. I have never used LInux before but I have always been pretty savy with computers and this installation was a breeze.
I hardly ever boot into Win10 for any reason now, so it is finally time to say goodbye. As plenty of other die hard Linux fans have said many many times before, “It is inevitable”.
I looked for similar topics on this forum as well as others online but I haven’t found any that specifially point to same situation that I find myself in.
If there are Linux wizards who would like to instruct me on removing Win10 from my SSD safely so that I can then expand my ROOT partition to the remainder of the SSD, I will be forever grateful.
Again, I originally partitioned 20gb for Manjaro and 4gb for Swap on my 500gb SSD. If any further information is required before I receive an instructional answer, I will be happy to do so.
The problem with your request is that the root partition UUID - most likely - will change if you resize to the west and this will invalidate your grub root partition UUID.
But if you if you are using Windows $esp you should be able to remove all other partitions - then use the gparted gui to extend your root partition.
Here is the system information. Apparently I partitioned only 10gb for Manjaro instead of 20. Im not sure how I glanced over that when writing my original post.
I also have completely backup all my data from my SSD on an external from both Win10 and Manjaro.
I still have my Bootable USB as well so if need be, I am willing to do a full wipe of the SSD and install Manajro clean onto the SSD.
But if there is a method for clean off Win10 and expanding Manjaro to the whole SSD, that would be perferred.
I prefer separate disks for each operatingsystem…
Otherwise one “may” delete the other (preferable Wind**fs does) - or you
“must aufpassen wie ein Schießhund (watch out like a shooting dog)”.
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The tool “Disks” helps finding out which partition belong to windows. Delete with “gparted”.
Boot USB-Live-stick and extend Manjaro with “empty” places?!
OK, you should boot into a fresh live ISO (should not be too old as you have to update the packages) to perform the following activities.This is needed as all Linux partitions must be unmounted.
When running the live ISO, set-up your network connection and install GParted if it’s not part of the live ISO by
Open GParted and make unformatted the partitions sda3, sda4, sda5 and sda6, execute the commands. sda1 is so small that I would keep it to avoid that you need to move your efi partition.
Then mark them for deletion and execute the commands.
Now, you can move and resize your Linux partition and your swap partition. Execute the change. You also could create further data partitions if you want.
After that, leave GParted.
Open a terminal window and restore the grub bootloader::