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/ 2 Years ago, tue, march 1, 2022, 10:36:17
My current Ubuntu installation shows 3 partitions. I thought I had deleted every partition from my Windows 10 SSD before installing Ubuntu 20.04.
- Did Ubuntu reuse my Windows boot partition instead of making a new one? I noticed it's still FAT32 formatted. Is there some way at this point to convert it to a Linux filesystem if it really is the boot partition?
I'm sure the second 1TB partition showed up after installing Timeshift. I didn't pay attention to which 1TB partition was there first, but I assume sda2. I uninstalled Timeshift briefly to see if one of the 1TB partitions would go away, but both remained.
- Did Timeshift create this second partition, or is it some artifact I can safely delete? How can 2 partitions share the same physical drive when they overlap like this?
Thank you very much!
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 931.53 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 850
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x52e04291
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1050623 1048576 512M b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 1052670 1953523711 1952471042 931G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1052672 1953523711 1952471040 931G 83 Linux
$ sudo mount | grep sda
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda5 on /run/timeshift/backup type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
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