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

[Colin Law]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 at 21:16, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

If it is currently accessing the grub config off that drive then
deleting it may result in a non-booting system.  Did you look at what
Nils suggested?

Colin