/dev/sda1 System reserved NTFS partition

[databreach]

Hi,

 

Today I was able to install Manjaro with a 2gb USB (with manjaro-architect). It works just fine installed on /dev/sda2 but when running  this

lsblk

I get this output

NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL           UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                                     
├─sda1 ntfs         System Reserved 5074471874470068                                    
└─sda2 ext4   1.0                   17fa6b25-20bc-4d9e-8fd9-3ae9cf202128  836.4G     4% /

The ntfs partition with system reserved is maybe some windows leftover not deleted by manjaro ? how am I gonna remove it from there and from grub ?

[SnowyMus]

It doesn't sound like you reformatted your entire disk when installing the software - only the partition that had the Windows OS. You can probably format that partition with fdisk or GParted, though those partitions are typically between 100 and 500 MiB, so you're probably not going to have a massive amount of use for it.

 

As for how you do it, the Arch Wiki has a really good guide on using fdisk which comes with your OS. Alternatively, GParted might be more to your taste if you want a graphical way to do this. I think you can get gparted with this command: 

sudo pacman -Syu gparted

And, of course, try not to nuke /dev/sda2 or the entire /dev/sda of course.

 

As for configuring GRUB, there's a pretty guide on the Arch Wiki, as well, though I've never manually configured GRUB before (I use systemd). It seems to involve running

 grub-mkconfig

if that helps.

[sp331yi]

@databreach -- yeh, just use Gparted to delete the partition then format it to ext2 to get rid of the ntfs file system by overwriting;  after this, can either use it for, say Puppy Linux or make it 'cleared' and expand your boot (I assume /dev/sda2 is your boot and it is flagged as such) in include whatever space it opens up .  If do either, become root in manjaro and issue the command

update-grub

or simply  <sudo update-grub>

 

If do not know how to become root or manjaro does not normally allow this, go to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login in normally as user and issue command 

sudo passwd root

to create a password for root (do this offline) so that User can become root by issuing command

su -

If after doing the elimination of /dev/sda1 and choose to expand /dev/sda2 to include empty space within it,  you may/should edit your file /etc/fstab to reflect the changes.

 

Here is a link explaining your fstab

 

It's good to know fstab so partitions can be manipulated properly, especially if doing the <update-grub> does not work as desired for some reason. 

 

Best wishes!

[databreach]

Ok i did it. The NTFS partition partition was indeed used as boot (it was flagged as so and grub showed a windows entry on /dev/sda1) and that one was ntfs and labeled as system reserved. I formatted it to ext2 and did

sudo update-grub

It's still flagged as boot and grub didn't fail so I assume it worked.