Removing Linux Mint from dualboot

[sports fan Matt]

If I wanted to remove Linux Mint and only run Noble, I for the life of me can't remember how to wipe that portion of the drive. I dual boot mint and noble at the moment with 128 GB going to Noble and 127 going to Mint (256 GB Hard drive)

[yancek]

If you simply want to use the Mint partition for data from Ubuntu you would just format the Mint partition using gparted or other partition management software. Do make certain you get the correct drive/partition. If you still have the media (DVD/USB) you used to install Ubuntu, it has gparted on it and you could use that. Or you can simply install it on Ubuntu or use fdisk or parted or any partition manager.

Once you have formatted the old Mint partition, you can create another partition there to use for data. You might run sudo update-grub after the format to remove the Mint entry from the Grub menu. One thing to take care about it to ensure that the bootloader is from Ubuntu and not Mint before doing anything else you will have problems booting.

[sports fan Matt]

I just used a flashdrive but i turned it into a Ventoy flash drive. And I could just use the data ~ didn't think about that. Let me install Gparted and see what it says.

[sports fan Matt]

Ok, not exactly sure how to imput

[sports fan Matt]

file:///home/mattyice/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot%20from%202024-08-08%2015-44-37.png[IMG]file:///home/mattyice/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot%20from%202024-08-08%2015-44-37.png[/IMG] maybe that works. [IMG]file:///home/mattyice/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot%20from%202024-08-08%2015-44-37.png[/IMG] maybe that works if not let me know

[grahammechanical]

I would like to make a point. Which OS is in control of the Grub bootloader? Remove the OS in charge of Grub and you may not be able to boot the remaining OS.

Load into Ubuntu and run the Disks utility and make a note of the partition that contains the boot files. On my system I see

Contents FAT (32 bit version) mounted at /boot/efi
Device /dev/nvme0n1p1
Partition type EFI System

The EFI System partition is where the boot loader files go. Now run

sudo grub-install /dev/xxxx

That will put Ubuntu in control of the Grub boot menu. Now when you delete or format that Linux Mint partition you will still be able to boot Ubuntu. Next you load into Ubuntu and run

sudo update-grub

That will remove Linux Mint from the Grub boot menu. The Linux Mint boot files will still be in the EFI System partition. They can be left or deleted if you can identify them.

Regards

[sports fan Matt]

[IMG]file:///home/mattyice/Pictures/Screenshots/Screenshot%20from%202024-08-08%2016-10-38.png[/IMG] this is from disks.

[tea for one]

maybe that works if not let me know

No, it doesn't work.
You cannot just provide a path to your own user directory, you have to use the forum Attachments method.
Adv Reply > Attachments > Manage Attachments
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P.S. If I could actually see the picture in your user directory, I may be tempted to steal all your money while I'm there

[sports fan Matt]

Ok here we are. the 128 GB volume is the Mint partition.

[#&thj^%]

P.S. If I could actually see the picture in your user directory, I may be tempted to steal all your money while I'm there

I'll do a 50/50 split with ya....wink wink