05-20-2017, 10:27 PM
[member=6935]supergamer[/member],
Didn't realize you were headed toward instructing to delete everything and redo install. That can be done too, but I'm wondering what that NTFS partition between the two EXT4 partitions is? If it's brand new with nothing on it, then it should be deleted too because it's breaking up the contiguous space on the extended partition to make a larger EXT4 partition for LL install. If it's already in use by Windows then just keeping /dev/sda8 install of LL as-is and deleting the extra install on sda6 should be fine. /dev/sda8 is over 100GB in size, which is plenty of space to start with on LL. I just thought keeping one working LL and deleting the other would be more simple than deleting everything and re-installing because that might involve copying off data from the NTFS partition, re-creating that too (in a different location) and copying data back on afterwards.
[member=6937]Radhika[/member],
If the /dev/sda5 NTFS partition is something you recently made and does not contain any data files, then you might want to consider doing as supergamer is suggesting. Delete all partitions in that extended partition, remake the NTFS partition first, then install LL to the remaining space after it.
Didn't realize you were headed toward instructing to delete everything and redo install. That can be done too, but I'm wondering what that NTFS partition between the two EXT4 partitions is? If it's brand new with nothing on it, then it should be deleted too because it's breaking up the contiguous space on the extended partition to make a larger EXT4 partition for LL install. If it's already in use by Windows then just keeping /dev/sda8 install of LL as-is and deleting the extra install on sda6 should be fine. /dev/sda8 is over 100GB in size, which is plenty of space to start with on LL. I just thought keeping one working LL and deleting the other would be more simple than deleting everything and re-installing because that might involve copying off data from the NTFS partition, re-creating that too (in a different location) and copying data back on afterwards.
[member=6937]Radhika[/member],
If the /dev/sda5 NTFS partition is something you recently made and does not contain any data files, then you might want to consider doing as supergamer is suggesting. Delete all partitions in that extended partition, remake the NTFS partition first, then install LL to the remaining space after it.
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