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I am new here!

I was setting up dual boot on my laptop, which already had Windows. I first flashed the usb with Ububtu, then once I boot from usb with it, I starded the installer... Dunno why the installer probably interrupt, so I had to start over again.

In the end it worked, I installed Ubuntu but there is a problem with my partitions; checking with fdisk i see, beside other partiotions for microsoft etc., I have two partitions for linux filesystem:

/dev/nvme0n1p7 640614400 749608959 108994560 52G Linux filesystem

/dev/nvme0n1p8 749608960 947814399 198205440 94.5G Linux filesystem

Now the problem is I would like to merge those partitions (52+94.5) all in one single partition, since the 52g partition is empty, but I really dunno how! Could you please help me? I Mean, since it's a delicate issue, I don't wanna risk to make errors, so I am asking here.

Thank you!

output df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

tmpfs 1560776 2448 1558328 1% /run

/dev/nvme0n1p8 96959820 20355696 71632604 23% /

tmpfs 7803872 0 7803872 0% /dev/shm

tmpfs 5120 12 5108 1% /run/lock

efivarfs 128 46 78 38% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

/dev/nvme0n1p1 262144 33788 228356 13% /boot/efi

tmpfs 1560772 136 1560636 1% /run/user/1000

/dev/nvme0n1p3 320022852 231321708 88701144 73% /media/strawberry/OS

JuicyStrawberry
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Basically you wish to combine your Ubuntu working partition with another aborted Ubuntu install partition with no data in it?

Messing with partitions is a high risk activity of breaking something and/or losing data so make sure everything is backed up.

I can think of two options: -

First:

If the two partitions are contiguous (next to each other) then you could delete the one that has no data in it and extend the other one using the space created from the deletion.

You can only do this if the partitions are not mounted so I would recommend using gparted (a graphical partition tool) on the Ubuntu installation media. You could go further and move partitions around but I would not recommend doing this.

Second:

If the two partitions are not contiguous (next to each other) then I would recommend moving your home directory (you haven't already got a separate home) to the unused defunct Ubuntu partition. You might like to re-initialise this first (using gparted again) then see link below for details of how to do this.

How to create a separate home partition after installing Ubuntu under single / partition

Good luck.

david
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