Disk management

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Disk management

Postby JJF » Oct 19th, '14, 19:58

I am running Mageia 4.1 64B, KDM dual screen driven by nvidia. I am able to boot and login to:
Windows XP 64 b
Mageia 4.1 64b
Ubuntu / Mint 64b (an undefine "mix" of both)

I'ld like to "eliminate" files residing on the same phisycal disk to make more room for Mageia 4.1.
Attached herein are 6 screenshots (3 of which I can preview before I submit) presenting the various disks.

I know that the 78.7 GiB is the 64b WinXp installation. Others disks:

New Volume
12 GiB Hard Drive
47.7 GiB Hard Drive
64.3 GiB Hard Drive

are linux disks.

My qestions are:
How to identify the disks that I can wipe - remove their partirions?
Assuming that I have backed up important user files, would it be clever to totally remove partitions or unused distributions?
Will I be able to boot without risking the 3 installations mentione above?

(It might sound silly, but I will appreciate your advise)

JJF
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Re: Disk management

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 20th, '14, 01:28

Please show the output as root of
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lsblk -fl
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Re: Disk management

Postby JJF » Oct 20th, '14, 16:51

Attached, per your request (immediatly after boot)

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lsblk -fl
NAME  FSTYPE LABEL      UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                         
sda1  ntfs                         8C941EFF941EEB88                     
sda2                                                         
sda5  ext4                        a006d391-77d1-41a2-9d0f-00009af38638
sda6  swap                       86d7c7e4-c2aa-4cde-ae00-b56ce5071595 [SWAP]
sda7  ext4   New Volume  d72616a8-ef87-4f17-9f92-967b60c77c33
sda8  ext4                       ba6bd559-9a40-454b-89c0-205a69be9d8e /
sda9  swap                     9e88f757-690f-466a-881b-2097d4cd7183 [SWAP]
sda10 ext4                      7e0f2ce2-57c7-4e6f-a565-3420754a86f5 /home
sr0


Tks
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Re: Disk management

Postby JJF » Oct 21st, '14, 16:51

Just in case the previous reply did not reach Mageia forum
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Re: Disk management

Postby doktor5000 » Oct 21st, '14, 21:51

JJF wrote:Just in case the previous reply did not reach Mageia forum

It did reach the forum, as you can see directly above your post.
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