To install Windows on a system that has Linux installed when you want to remove Linux, you must manually delete the partitions used by the Linux operating system. The Windows-compatible partition can be created automatically during the installation of the Windows operating sy...
Before doing anything, you'll want to boot into Windows 11 or earlier and create a recovery drive that you can boot from later on. Windows 11 has a built-in tool to create a recovery driver and installer. We'll need this later once you remove your Linux partitions. Here's how to do...
Step 1Create a partition of the disk Firstly, connect the disk to your Linux system if you haven't already and launch the Terminal window on it. You can enter the following command to check it: sudo fdisk –l. Now, to create a partition, enter the command "fdsk" in the following for...
very common topic - and quite often so easily overlooked by Linux users all over the world. It stands to logic, really. You install an operating system - so you expect to be able to uninstall it, undo the installation, remove the operating system without any trace left to...
Is there a way to stop active swap disks, so that they can move their load to other swap disks? Server being migrated from old SAN arrays to a new array. Secondary swap is currently in use as swap disks on the old array and the new array. From below list, I want to stop sda2 ...
This article will show how to grow a partition on your Linux partition to fill the entire disk using growpart. This is useful if you have resized a virtual
Delete a Partition in Linux using fdisk To Delete partition first, we need to list out the available partitions and select the appropriate disk. For that, we can use thefdiskcommand to list out and delete the selected partition. If you don’t know what isfdiskread these short descriptions ...
In this chapter, we’ll discuss in detail how to work with disks on a Linux system. You’ll learn how to partition disks, create and maintain the filesystems that go inside disk partitions, and work with swap space. 在第三章中,我们讨论了内核提供的一些顶层磁盘设备。 在本章中,我们将...
Command completed successfully but when I re-insert usb stick, it still tries to use information from GPT partition table. So, I usedgdiskutilitiy’szap (destroy) GPT data structuresoption to remove GPT partition like below: sudo gdisk /dev/sdb ...
Do you need to shrink a partition with your Linux without reinstalling the system? You can resize your partition without losing your data with GParted and this post will show you how to do that. I used this method when I decided that I needed to re-partition my hard drive and create sev...