Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS apt problems - how to upgrade f/w?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:43:58 +0000, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

>Do you have that drive with a bootable system on it?  If so then that
>is why it is there.
>

Hi Colin,
I have now mounted the extra partition and inspected its content.
It seems like it is completely empty of anything except a newly installed never
used Desktop version of Ubuntu....
$HOME just contains the usual directories all empty for instance.

I suspect that it was used to get hold of GParted to work on the partitioning of
the drive back in 2021. No files I have seen are dated after 2021-10-31.

In any case there is now also the standalone GParted partition which is
accessible from the boot menu so I think I will simply try to delete the
partition or maybe re-format it into a data store.

This is how the disk looks like now:

$ sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
UUID              NAME         FSTYPE     SIZE MOUNTPOINT
                  nvme0n1                 477G
42BE-49BB         +-nvme0n1p1  vfat       260M /boot/efi
                  +-nvme0n1p2              16M   <== Windows?
3810C0E610C0AC66  +-nvme0n1p3  ntfs        60G   <== Windows
DA8EC18E8EC1641B  +-nvme0n1p4  ntfs      1000M   <== Windows?
3d88bb41-a2e7-43a +-nvme0n1p5  ext4        30G /mnt/nvme <== Ubuntu Desktop
ec0e8708-8a6a-4bb +-nvme0n1p6  ext4        30G /
fb4a08b7-378e-42e +-nvme0n1p7  ext4        80G /var/lib/svn
389c6db9-3256-47e +-nvme0n1p8  ext4       264G /home
a77b40db-2377-4d2 +-nvme0n1p9  swap       1.8G [SWAP]
d6b92d15-bdd8-492 +-nvme0n1p10 ext4         1G

So reformatting nvme0n1p5 into a data drive will clean up a lot I think.
Like so:

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p5

But I must unmount the partition first but then I guess the command above will
do it.

After that is done I will have an extra data partition of 30 GB capacity.

And then if I rebuiuld grub I think it will see that the Ubuntu desktop
partition is no more and the old extra grub entries will vanish??

What do you think?


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden