linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: grub and how to delete "Ubuntu";two Linuxdistribution,I want to delete one distribution;gparted?

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "highskywhy@..." <highskywhy@...> wrote:
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> Sa MÃ¤r 09 13:19:41 2013
> Good afternoon
> Thank You for help.
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>> I have done this sort of thing recently.
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> I saw
> it is not installed
> but I could see it in the software-center.
> So I am sure
> it is easy to install for me.
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>> gparted should already be
>> installed with xubuntu. If not, from the terminal (also known as the
>> command line) type:
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>> sudo apt-get install gparted
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> Thank You.
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>> Once that is installed, do the following:
>> 1. Backup your Xubuntu partition just to be on the safe side
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> OK
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>> 2. Run gparted from the menu. I do not know the specific location
>> on xubuntu but it should be under something like "Administration"
>> or "System" or "System Tools."
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> OK
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>> 3. Using gparted, delete ONLY the Ubuntu partition.
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>> OK
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> 4. Apply changes
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> What does this mean?

Gparted has a nice feature where when you do something like
delete a partition, it does not do this immediately. Instead
it waits until you apply your changes. Now on Mint, the
apply occurs as a button on the button bar at the top. In
Mint that is a check mark.

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> 5. Using gparted, resize the Xubuntu partition. If it won't let you
> do this, come back and let me know. We can still get there from
> here.
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> OK
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> 6. Apply changes
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> How can I do this?

See above.

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> 7. From the command line type:
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> sudo update-grub
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> I understand.
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> This will update the grub menu so only Xubuntu exists
> 8. From the command line type:
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> sudo grub-install
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> This I dont understand.

update-grub just gathers the current information. Since
Ubuntu will be gone, it will build a grub menu with only
Xubuntu on it. However, it does not install it on the
disk until you tell it to. This is done through grub-install.
I missed one thing. It should be:

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

This is assuming your boot drive is a SATA drive and it
is the first drive in the system. If your boot drive is
PATA (IDE) then it would be

sudo grub-install /dev/hda

You can figure this out using the following method when
in Xubuntu. From the command line type:

df -h

This will give you a list of all partitions currently mounted.
There should be one mounted to /. This is the partition on
which Xubuntu is loaded. Remove the final number and you
get the proper disk on which to install grub. For example
here is mine:

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 39G 5.8G 31G 16% /
udev 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.6G 1.1M 1.6G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 3.9G 1.1M 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 12K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda4 39G 7.9G 29G 22% /alt_boot
/dev/sda5 834G 517G 275G 66% /data
//10.100.1.202/OracleRetail$ 40G 16G 24G 40% /data/alsshare

Notice that / is /dev/sda3. Removing the number, the proper disk
on which to install grub is /dev/sda.

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> This will make the change in grub permanent.
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> Why there is:
> sudo update-grub
> AND
> sudo grub-install
>

Explained above

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>> You should at this point have the entire 80 GB available to Xubuntu.
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> Thank You.
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>> One more note. I always keep all of my data on a separate partition.
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> On my Linux Systems
> I have a Desktop.
> In this Desktop there is a directory
> userfiles.
> This directory contains:
> dailyfiles (new created or downloaded)
> usefiles (files from other computers)
> backupothers (backup files from other computers and the backup from this
> computer is on another computer)
> downloads (programs like Opera I did download from internet)
> So every evening I am copying the directory dailyfiles on USB Stick
> and once a week I burn it on CD.
>
> Is this a good way to save files?
>

It will work, however, the way I have it set up is that data is
a separte partition. That means when I install a new OS on the
system, I just have to add that partition to the new OS as
/data WITHOUT FORMATTING and all of my data files are there
without having to restore from backup to see my documents.

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>> I always mount it as /data when I install a new or updated Linux OS.
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> I copy all files from directory dailyfiles to usb-stick and another
> computer.
> Only problem are the directories from mail-programmes.
> Claws is very easy to save files there is a subdirectory in the
> directory dailyfiles.
>

That is certainly commendable and you should do that.

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>> I don't use /home because some settings for one distro will not work
>> with another distro. In this way, I keep my home partition just for
>> settings then save all of my information on my /data partition. I
>> would suggest this to you while you are doing this. If you want me
>> to modify this to make a scheme such as this work for you, just let
>> me know.
>
> Thank You.
> If I really would destroy my os
> before I do dangerous things
> I am copying dailyfiles
> and so I loose only program-files and these files I can download again
> from www.
>
>
> Regards
> Sophie
>
> Again Thank You.
>

Hope this helps!

Regards
Loyal