Jump to content

Merge System Partitions

berderder
 Share
Go to solution Solved by Godlygamer23,

That's normal. It's supposed to do that. My setup is the same way on my SSD.

post-7355-0-56129200-1434308515_thumb.jp

Posted

Hi everybody,

 

My friend helped me build my computer and it has a 120 GB solid state drive.  When he did disc management, it seems he placed my system files in two partitions. First primary partition has about 100MB reserved for system files, but another partition on that drive contains Boot, Page File, and Crash Dump. Is it possible to merge my 100MB system partition with the partition that contains the Boot, Page File, etc? That partitions contains the remaining 119 GB or so.

 

Thanks!

 

 

post-116259-0-48976200-1434308368_thumb.

ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE       Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR4             TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB NVME SSD

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X                   Antec DF700 Case                                 MSI Radeon RX 580 4 GB ARMOR OC

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Solution

That's normal. It's supposed to do that. My setup is the same way on my SSD.

post-7355-0-56129200-1434308515_thumb.jp

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218749
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

No, windows needs that partition for something.

Location: Kaunas, Lithuania, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Local Interstellar Cloud, Local Bubble, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Milky Way subgroup, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea, Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, Observable universe, Universe.

Spoiler

12700, B660M Mortar DDR4, 32GB 3200C16 Viper Steel, 2TB SN570, EVGA Supernova G6 850W, be quiet! 500FX, EVGA 3070Ti FTW3 Ultra.

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218767
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

That's normal. It's supposed to do that.

Oh, really? I guess I am not wrong then that they are all system files. Merging them or not is sort of arbitrary, but I kind of wanted to "clean it up." I also wanted to make a separate partition that could contain a single install of a high resource game say like a 50GB game. I don't actually think I have enough space for that. It seems I only have 17% left of the 2nd partition to work with..

ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE       Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR4             TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB NVME SSD

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X                   Antec DF700 Case                                 MSI Radeon RX 580 4 GB ARMOR OC

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218769
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

Huh, oh ok

ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE       Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR4             TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB NVME SSD

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X                   Antec DF700 Case                                 MSI Radeon RX 580 4 GB ARMOR OC

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218772
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Oh, really? I guess I am not wrong then that they are all system files. Merging them or not is sort of arbitrary, but I kind of wanted to "clean it up." I also wanted to make a separate partition that could contain a single install of a high resource game say like a 50GB game. I don't actually think I have enough space for that. It seems I only have 17% left of the 2nd partition to work with..

You can create additional partitions if you so desire. You have to shrink your main partition though in order to create "unallocated space" which can then be formatted.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218785
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

You can create additional partitions if you so desire. You have to shrink your main partition though in order to create "unallocated space" which can then be formatted.

Yeah, that's the weird thing. I guess my system files take up almost the entire SSD, unless I have a bunch of photos in their or something that I forgot about. I think the amount it would let me shrink the partition was only about 10 GB or so to be used in another partition on that same drive

ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE       Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR4             TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB NVME SSD

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X                   Antec DF700 Case                                 MSI Radeon RX 580 4 GB ARMOR OC

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218811
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Totally normal.

Main Rig:-

Ryzen 7 3800X | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | 16GB Team Group Dark Pro 3600Mhz | Corsair MP600 1TB PCIe Gen 4 | Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse | Corsair H115i Platinum | WD Black 1TB | WD Green 4TB | EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650W | Asus TUF GT501 | Samsung C27HG70 1440p 144hz HDR FreeSync 2 | Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS |

 

Server:-

Intel NUC running Server 2019 + Synology DSM218+ with 2 x 4TB Toshiba NAS Ready HDDs (RAID0)

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218843
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

No, windows needs that partition for something.

In my experience, it uses it to boot. I once had that partition on my hard drive while the actual OS was on my SSD - I took the hard drive out, and Windows refused to boot. In fact, I had a black screen with the underscore "blinking."

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan.

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch

"I didn't die! I performed a tactical reset!" - Apollolol

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218854
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

In my experience, it uses it to boot. I once had that partition on my hard drive while the actual OS was on my SSD - I took the hard drive out, and Windows refused to boot. In fact, I had a black screen with the underscore "blinking."

And I guess that's the advantage of having those files on the SSD as well, increasing the boot speed or whatnot, if that's the case

ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE       Corsair Vengeance 16 GB DDR4             TEAMGROUP MP33 1 TB NVME SSD

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X                   Antec DF700 Case                                 MSI Radeon RX 580 4 GB ARMOR OC

 

Link to comment
https://linustechtips.com/topic/386677-merge-system-partitions/#findComment-5218862
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing Operating Systems

×