Hi everyone, I recently found my old Dell Inspiron 15R laptop in storage. It had Ubuntu installed on it from when I was in school, but I’ve since forgotten the sudo password. Instead of recovering or resetting the password, I decided to install Linux Mint, which I’ve been wanting to try. The installation was successful, and I partitioned the hard disk during the process. Now, I’d like to completely remove the old Ubuntu partition, and I’m okay with losing any data on it. Can I simply format the Ubuntu partition to ext4 using the Disks application in Linux Mint? Are there any potential issues I should be aware of? Thanks in advance!
You can mount the Ubuntu partition on the Mint system, and copy the files somewhere else, or examine what files are there if some of them might be useful. Yes. If you want to use that disk space on Mint, you need to mount it to some mount point, for example /opt or /srv or some other mount point that now has nothing written there. If there are files in the mount point, they are not accessible while that partition is mounted there.
