<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 16px"></div>On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 09:53, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:<blockquote><div><br></div></blockquote><span></span><blockquote><div>I suspect you are misinterpreting something. Likely the GRUB packages<br>are installed on both installs and likely both installs contain GRUB<br>configuration files, but unlikely GRUB itself is installed on both<br>drives.<br><br>At first you could run<br><br>diff /boot/grub/grub.cfg /mount/point/install_2/boot/grub/grub.cfg<br></div></blockquote><div><span><br></span></div><div><span> Hi Ralf, and many thanks for your suggestion. Lockdown is stressing, I should have thought myself about changing the boot order...</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Indeed, the old HD was higher in boot sequence than the new SSD one.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>So I disabled the HD in the BIOS, rebooted, and this is the status now:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Both installs are still working, and still listed in grub menu, but inverted.</span></div><div><span>Now the SSD install is first, and chosen as default, which is good, and the other is at the bottom.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The first lines of diffs between the two grub files are at the bottom. /boot/grub/grub.cfg is the one on</span></div><div><span>the SSD drive, which in fact also points at a newer kernel version (because after installing the SSD I</span></div><div><span>never ran apt-get update/upgrade on the HD install...)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Now I need to:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>1)remove from grub the option to boot the HD install. What is the recommended way to do it, in a weird (for me now, at least) setup like this?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>2) reconfigure/repartition the HD. Right now, what is still $HOME when booting the HD install is $HOME/home/marco in the SSD install, and this is how the HD is partitioned and mounted:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>excerpt of fdisk -l</span></div><div><span>Disk /dev/sda: 298,9 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors<br>Disk model: HGST HTS725032A7<br>Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes<br>Disklabel type: dos<br>Disk identifier: 0xceb4c5c7<br><br>Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type<br>/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT<br>/dev/sda2 206848 82238097 82031250 39,1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT<br>/dev/sda3 82239488 625141759 542902272 258,9G 83 Linux<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>#> mount | grep home<br>/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime)<br><br></span></div><div><span>What I would need, instead, is: delete /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, expand (WITHOUT canceling anything it contains!!!) /dev/sda3 so it uses the whole HD disk, and mount it in the SSD install (which at that point would be the only one, of course) as /backup, or something similar. That way, I would do all my work on the faster SSD drive, and use the other as storage for backups, or stuff I seldom need, being able to replace it any time without touching the working SSD install.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>How to proceed? Thanks (and expect unrelated questions to appear in the list, it is "Ubuntu overdue maintenance day" here, on several computers...)<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>marco<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><blockquote><div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>