To answer your question, just want to confirm it first so that I’ve understood it correctly and correct me if I’m wrong. You can expand root partition if needed but with this you need to be extremely careful and it can be risky. I also suggest to allocate the new empty space to your home partition in order to have more free space for your files. After that then you can with these methods expand the Ubuntu partitions – Method for the LVM and method without LVM.Īlso, be careful and have everything backed up before doing this. Once this is determined, make sure the Ubuntu is primary OS for booting in the GRUB, then on Ubuntu you can simply just with Gparted wipe the Mint partitions(careful with this also).
You have a different procedure when expanding a partitions which has LVM and when it doesn’t. Once you figure out the GRUB situation, then you need to determine is Ubuntu installed with LVM – logic volume manager or not – you can check that with the steps from this forum thread.
The first important step is to check and determine where is the GRUB bootloader installed? Is it on a separate partition or is it with one of the OS-es? If it’s with Mint, then you’ll need to have it installed on Ubuntu. First is of course, if you have data on Mint, backup the data in order to transfer them later on Ubuntu. Hi there… To make this change, there are plenty prerequisites to do first and to check as well. Underneath is also a video tutorial for this process: Please note, before you proceed if you already use GNU/Linux as your daily driver on your PC, backup everything first. You can also check out tutorials how to dual boot these systems with Windows 10 following these links Dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10, Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10. The process can be done vice versa since both systems are based on the same distributions and have the same installation. In this example, Ubuntu is pre-installed and we installed Linux Mint afterwards and setup the dual boot. This time we will show you how to dual boot Ubuntu and Linux Mint on a single drive. In this post we will dual boot two Linux distributions and show you step by step how it’s done. When someone mentions dual boot, often it’s referred to dual booting a GNU/Linux distro and Windows, or Windows and MAC OS X. Dual boot Ubuntu and Linux Mint | Dual booting two GNU/Linux distros.
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