Hey guys, I’ve been using Linux Mint and Windows 11 via a dual boot setup on two laptops for a while.
I hardly ever use Windows 11, except on my work laptop, so I want to delete it from my personal laptop.
How can I do this? What is the safest and easiest way, and what should I bear in mind?
Thank you in advance for your answers, and have a sunny day!
Delete windows partition with your preferred tool and
update-grub
should remove the item from boot menu. Then, depending on your partitioning schema, you can either create a new partition in the empty space and mount it however you like or expand your existing linux partition, but options there depend on how your partitioning has been originally built and if you can leverage things like LVM or ZFS when expanding the usable storage.And, while pretty obvious, make sure to only delete the correct partition and all data stored on that will be lost, so make sure you don’t have anything important on windows side of things.
gparted
is a straightforward partition editing tool, in case you’re not aware, OP.