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Long ago, I had to reinstall Ubuntu on my Laptop. Unfortunately my disk got split into 2 partitions. Now I want to remount the 2nd partition. However I am not sure what steps to take.

Do I need to clear the 2nd partition first? (no useful data there)

Which tools should I use? (e.g. Gparted)

Any other good advice?

Gparted: Showing my Disk.

I'd like to clear sda4 and remount it to sda5

Zanna
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Felix Hohnstein
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    You probably don't mean to remount. Do you want to delete sda4 and grow sda5 so that it incorporates the free space where sda4 used to be? – variona May 28 '19 at 11:33
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    I would backup your data from your /media/fe... (twice), boot a live system (eg. install media) and use that to delete the /media/fe... partition, then grow the other one to use the space. Reboot and all should be good. (at worst a 1% chance of a grub issue, but extremely unlikely & easily fixed) – guiverc May 28 '19 at 12:03

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guiverc's comment was a good help. I used the following steps:

  1. delete the partition with Gparted
  2. reinstall GRUB
  3. boot a live system | boot from USB stick with Ubuntu ISO
  4. use Gparted to resize the disk space
  5. reboot
Zanna
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Felix Hohnstein
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