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I am having problems with installing Ubuntu on a machine. It has Windows 10 on it, with 4 partitions in NTFS. I have another partition with ~30GB of space. I installed CentOS on it. Now I want to install Ubuntu on this partition (deleting CentOS and replacing it with Ubuntu).

I don't want to play with Windows partitions. When I tried doing it, I got Ubuntu installation crashed error (I selected /dev/mapper/... for installing, after selecting Something else option). I tried looking for answers, but unable to find any.

Also, if I try to delete that partition with GParted (with USB running Ubuntu), it shows a locked flag over that partition and not allowing me to do anything with that 30GB partition.

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Output of lsblk

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0   100M  0 part 
├─sda2        8:2    0 104.9G  0 part /media/ubuntu/D2666B5C666B3FF9
├─sda5        8:5    0   401G  0 part /media/ubuntu/Movies
├─sda6        8:6    0 298.4G  0 part /media/ubuntu/Softwares
├─sda7        8:7    0   101G  0 part /media/ubuntu/Code
├─sda8        8:8    0     1G  0 part 
└─sda9        8:9    0  25.3G  0 part 
  ├─cl-root 252:0    0  22.6G  0 lvm  
  └─cl-swap 252:1    0   2.6G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
sdb           8:16   1   7.5G  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   1   7.5G  0 part /cdrom
sr0          11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
loop0         7:0    0   1.4G  1 loop /rofs

Output of sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present


Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory.


Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 67E894AF-D1C3-4BEC-9CC4-8E26EBD30F10 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 20868 sectors (10.2 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 206847 100.0 MiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 2 206848 220211362 104.9 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 5 275290338 1116164402 401.0 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 6 1116164466 1741849702 298.3 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 7 1741850624 1953517567 100.9 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 8 220217344 222314495 1024.0 MiB 8300 Linux filesystem 9 222316544 275288063 25.3 GiB 8E00 Linux LVM

  • @Melebius, updated the question – theGamblerRises Jan 18 '17 at 09:32
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    This answer might be the suitable solution for your problem -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/217571/cant-format-delete-locked-partition-from-gparted#218732 ! :) – cl-netbox Jan 18 '17 at 11:25
  • @cl-netbox, thanks. I tried doing the selected answer. I am able to lvremove only one partition not the swap one. But still key lock icon is coming and I am not able to delete this partition. – theGamblerRises Jan 18 '17 at 13:37
  • You need to swapoff in order to deal with a swap partition. But you don't need to, just reuse it for Ubuntu. –  Jan 18 '17 at 14:29

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