Query about parasitic firefox file

[Liam Proven]

On 8 March 2018 at 10:08, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> The partition with the label Data05-10GB is the ex-Debian6 OS partition, to
> which I wanted to shift some data, to free up more space in the home
> partition.

Wow, that is quite a mess!

Why so many different "Data"-something partitions?

Anyway. I've tried to annotate the list -- here:

Device       Size       Type
/dev/sda1    70.6M      Dell Utility
/dev/sda2    8.6G       HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3    78.3G      HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4    509.2G     Extended
/dev/sda5    23.7G      Linux <- root
/dev/sda6    9.8G       Linux <- Data05-10GB
/dev/sda7    40.9G      Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8    78.1G      Linux <- not intentionally mounted?
/dev/sda9    78.1G      Linux <- Data01
/dev/sda10   78.1G      Linux <- Data02
/dev/sda11   39.1G      HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda12   37.3G      Linux <- Data03
/dev/sda13   55.9G      Linux <- home
/dev/sda14   68.4G      Linux <- Data04

Do you have other OSes on the machine than Windows and Ubuntu? Is that
why there are Data partitions 1/2/3/4 & 5?

If there was Debian and it's gone, then I stand by my suggestion.

Boot off a live medium, remove the old Debian root partition
(/dev/sda6), and one by one, move all the others up, so that the empty
space is used. Then you can enlarge /dev/sda13 by 10GB.

If you do not need Data 1 & 2 to be separate, I would merge sda10 into
sda9 into one volume.

If you do not need Data 3 & 4 to be separate, I would merge them into /home.

For what it's worth, most of my personal machines dual-boot Windows
for occasional client work, updating BIOSes, things like that. I keep
a separate Windows data partition -- as you seem to have in the form
of sda11. I symlink all the subfolders of my home directory
(Documents, Downloads, Pictures etc.) to the similarly-named ones in
my Windows data drive. So all my data is visible from both Windows and
Linux, but my Linux config files stay out of Windows' sight in my
Linux /home filesystem.

You could do the same quite easily.



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