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After a problem upgrading to 13.10 we had to create a partition which appears as device labelled 115 GB volume. when opened in the files window it's name in the tab is a lot of numbers and letters.

I would like to delete the partition safely. Is there anything I should check first and how do I delete it?

Matt
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  • Should you do anything first to make sure it's safe to delete? Yeah. You need to make sure that there is no important data on it that you need. If, after deleting the partition, your computer does not boot, you can use boot-repair to repair GRUB 2.
  • How should you delete it? You install GParted using the software center. Run GParted, authenticate, right click the partition and Unmount it, if necessary, delete it, resize any partitions you want to resize to give them more space, and hit the green check button to apply the operations.

But I can't stress this enough: Make sure your data is backed up and there is nothing you don't want deleted on that partition!

Richard
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first, install gparted; open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get install gparted

open gparted

...It should be simple then. You just select the partition, right click, delete

but watch it!!! you should know that after you do that you'll have the 115 GB unallocated! that means that they're not part of any partition and you can't normally use them. Consider them as floating in the air or something and I really don't think you want that, do you? After deleting the partition you should then stick the unallocated space to another partition. That depends on how your hard disk looks like. You can take a screenshot of gparted and put it here to let us see your hard disk. You can also just follow the documentation here http://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=moving-space-between-partitions .

...Just a friendly hint. If you don't really need to delete the partition and you can use it as it is then it's better not to play around with partitioning much because you might loose your data.

842Mono
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