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So I recently deleted Linux because it was too addicting to me, and accidently locked 300gigs of my drive away. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know what I did but I must've messed up somehow while deleting the distro, so now I only have 700 gigs of my total 1tb of disk space left, when I try to merge the other unallocated 300gigs of space back to the drive, it says "there's not enough space in the disk(s)". Anyone willing to help? here are the screenshots:

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just for my personal curiosity, could you clarify what you mean when you say Linux is "too addicting" for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Share your curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol I was wondering the same thing xD

Sounds like they were hooked on ricing their distro, classic mistake. Once you start ricing, you can't stop lol.

It's like custom PC building, I thought I was bad in college, spending my food and textbook money on PC parts...now I have a custom water cooling loop that cost me nearly as much as my actual PC :P

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is that EFI partition still being used? I take it there's a EFI partition on your windows drive, correct?

What you can do is create a bootable usb with a live linux distro and use gparted to sort out your partitions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try GParted live iso image.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He still won't be able to allocate this to his "Mia" partition since there's an EFI between those two unallocated spaces. That's why I asked in my post if that EFI partition is still being used. If his Windows install is on a different drive with a different EFI partition then he can go ahead and delete all partitions on Disk 0 except for "Mia" and grow the "Mia" partition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had a run in with this problem, exact same situation. It's because the disk is dynamic instead of basic. Heres a solution: https://superuser.com/questions/1489311/cannot-extend-drive-there-is-not-enough-space-available-on-the-disk-to-complete

Altough i determined the 200gigs I lost is not worth the (risk) trouble of losing everything else, so I didn't go with that solution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What do you mean «too addicting» ? xD

I'm just curious, that's the most unusual and unexpected reason to stop using Linux I ever read.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was also my first though xD. Yes It can sometimes take time get something working correctly but I largely prefere "wasting" my time learning something than losing time on reddit, tiktok, facebook... whatever your drug is ! Also curious what you mean with "too addicting" !

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would doomscroll forums, try to solve problems with apps, and try to customize most stuff about my distro, I would stay awake until 7 am i remember accidentally pulling an all nighter once. It wasn't really healthy for me so I had to quit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That... Is interesting 🤔 Linux can be fun but it should foremost just be a way to run your apps, just "be an OS", nothing more. Choose some well-supported enterprise distro like Fedora or Ubuntu or whatever and just do what you do on a computer, minus customizing it.

I know that's not how addiction works, but I'm sure there is some way for you to run Linux without having addiction problems. Now you're resorting to an OS that spies on you and fills you with ads, is that really what you want?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, yes you're right about that. I still want to continue using Linux, I guess Ubuntu would be a better choice

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Longtime linux user, I settled on using (K)ubuntu based systems at home. Main reason for me is that it's a very well-supported distro and whatever issue you come accross someeone else probably had it happening before. Always having the bleeding edge stuff is asking for trouble imho.

That doesn't mean I don't check out other distributions but I tend to run those in virtual machines. Might be an option for you as well? Play around with Linux in a virtual machine before committing fully to it?

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