Post #3594554
2026-07-05 01:22 UTC
Everything with a lock means it’s mounted and in use. sda1, sda2, sda6 and sda7 should be safe to format,
However as others have mentioned, booting into a live environment is the best course of action as it lets you freely move or combine partitions.
I suggest finding a thumb drive and flashing Gpartef onto it.
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@ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 2026-07-05 19:26
The one word of caution here if the bootloader is stored in these partitions you mentioned in which case it could render their system unbootable which would require some fixing. The safest would be like another commenter mentioned to only format the ntfs partition after doing a backup of course.