Can I safely delete the Ubuntu 12.04 partition and use the unallocated space for my Elementary OS?
- by d4ryl3
I have this setup:
I've decided to switch to Elementary OS Luna (fork of Ubuntu 12.04) as my main Linux distro. Now I need to delete my Ubuntu partition so I could add capacity to my eOS which only has 10Gb.
Currently my eOS is in /dev/sda9, and Ubuntu in /dev/sda8/. I forgot where my bootloader is installed, so I ran bootinfoscript, which returned this:
`============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
= Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
in partition 94 for .
sda1: __________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD
sda2: __________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda3: __________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /boot/bcd
sda4: __________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts
at sector 2048.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda6: __________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda7: __________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda7
and looks at sector 851823520 of the same hard drive
for core.img, but core.img can not be found at this
location.
Operating System:
Boot files: /grub/grub.cfg /extlinux/extlinux.conf
sda8: __________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.99)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the boot sector of sda8
and looks at sector 860224256 of the same hard drive
for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos9)/boot/grub on this drive.
Operating System: Ubuntu 13.04
Boot files: /etc/fstab
sda9: __________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: elementary OS Luna
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img`
I need advice as to how to proceed. I mean, could I simply delete /dev/sda7/ and /dev/sda8/? Please help, thank you.