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I had a PC with windows 10 installed. I put a second SSD in the PC and installed Ubuntu 16.04 on it. I thought I correctly selected the partition sizes but when looking at it, there are two separate main partitions.

  • One is the / - which has only been allocated 46.56 GB.
  • And a much larger /media/[username]/[30763...] partition with 438.63 GB.

I want everything on the / partition. Is it safe to unmount (delete) the /media/ partition? Why has this media partition been created?

Currently the media partition has the standard file structure (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, Videos) and only contains hidden files, and none of my working files.

Screenshot of partition of original SSD with windows 10

Screenshot of partition of new SSD with Ubuntu 16.04

EDIT

I check again this morning and I realise that when I open the PC the /media/[username]/[30763...] partition with 438.63 GB doesn't initially have a name.

Screenshot of partition of new SSD with Ubuntu 16.04

However after a few minutes (maybe after opening Nautilus?), the drives are mounted and then appear again as a partition named as before (see second screenshot).

Why is this happening? I dont really want either drives to appear in my files like this:

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The 499 GB Volume is for windows and I don't want to access that from Ubuntu And the 471 GB Volume I would like to be part of the main / partition.

Also when these drives are mounted, they are both automatically locked to the task bar. Why?

Tomaquet
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Unmounting and deleting a partition is a completely different thing.

If you unmount a partition, you just can't access it temporary. If you delete it, all of your data is gone eventually.

And according to your screenshots you /media is using 300GB. So there are more than just some hidden files.

If I know it right, under media are your mounted devices. I guess, maybe your windows partition is mounted there

EDIT:

Nautilus is probably automounting your hard drives and partitions. You can disable this as described here How to disable automount in nautilus's preferences .

Or if this is not the problem, look in to your fstab file with something like

more /etc/fstab

If you see your unwanted windows partition, just comment it out with a # at the beginning of the line.

Could you please give us a feedback and maybe some more information about the 7GB used space, is there anything you need or are those really just hidden files?

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    Thanks BO41, I think the media folder you're looking at is the windows one (299GB used which is fine as it is - first screenshot). The media folder in the second screenshot (on my new SSD) is the one which is confusing me (and has only 7.08 GB used - second screenshot). I want this partition to be part of the main partition. – Tomaquet Dec 23 '17 at 07:19