Hopefully a quick question about removing Windows 10

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#1

Hi AL!

I am about to remove a Windows install on a dual system (AL+Win10) without reinstalling AL.

How is the best way to do this?

Just remove Win-partitions and reformat and update grub?

I don´t use Win at all and can not upgrade the computer anyway (4 years old and too old for Win11 and Win10 will probably be obsolete soon.)

womp

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#2

Delete the win partion in the partition table. Depends on your partion layout, if the old win partion is conjunctive to another linux partition, for example / or /home, you could use gparted to resize the linux partition to use the new free space. Otherwise, you could create a new linux partition and linux file system, modify your fstab to mount it, for example as /data, /backup, etc. Finally, modify your grub conf to remove the windows entry and update grub.

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#3

Thanks for answer!

I will follow your advice!

womp

#4

Hi again!
Now Win10 is gone. But winboot-manger is still there. I will search how to get rid of it!

womp

#5

Use efibootmgr.

$sudo pacman -S efibootmgr

$efibootmgr

$sudo efibootmgr -b XXXX -B (XXXX is the BootOrder number for windows in your system)
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#6

Yeah! Good stuff!

womp