Partioning questions

[Jerombolo]

I have a 850 Pro. With the Samsung Magician I wanted to do an over provisioning partion thingy, now I can't do that but there's a partition with the suggested 10% of storrage (23.85GB) which I don't know what I'm supposed to do with. Then I have 2 partitions for systemrecovery, can I delete these?

[Telebubbies]

Can you please be more specific on what you are attempting to do? When you delete something, it is not really deleted. The OS marks it as "free space".

Example: You delete a 2GB video and then you get 2GB space extra. The video will still be on the computer until something overwrites it. 

Sorry if I do not understand what you are saying. You are not very specific on what you are trying to do. 

[Jerombolo]

1 minute ago, Telebubbies said:

Can you please be more specific on what you are attempting to do? When you delete something, it is not really deleted. The OS marks it as "free space".

Example: You delete a 2GB video and then you get 2GB space extra. The video will still be on the computer until something overwrites it. 

Sorry if I do not understand what you are saying. You are not very specific on what you are trying to do. 

I'd like to delete those 3 partitions. But somehow I can't.

[Mark77]

"overprovisioning" isn't done through partitioning, but is rather done by using a tool like hdparm, and editing the drive's reported capacity.  You then partition the drive to its fullest.  There's little reason to do it on a modern SSD, especially the Samsungs that will practically last a lifetime with their high-endurance 3D NAND. 

 

The general form hdparm to derate a drive is:

 

hdparm -N p# /dev/sdX

 

[Telebubbies]

6 minutes ago, Jerombolo said:

I'd like to delete those 3 partitions. But somehow I can't.

I see.. I am not sure on how to do this. But if you are using Windows, I recommend contacting their support if you do not get answers from here. 

[Jerombolo]

1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

"overprovisioning" isn't done through partitioning, but is rather done by using a tool like hdparm, and editing the drive's reported capacity.  You then partition the drive to its fullest.  There's little reason to do it on a modern SSD, especially the Samsungs that will practically last a lifetime with their high-endurance 3D NAND. 

 

The general form hdparm to derate a drive is:

 

hdparm -N p# /dev/sdX

 

I don't know. But you can press on Over Provisioning in the Samsung Magician program. It created a partition which the suggested volume but then it just says "not  allocated" on that partition which is on my SSD.

[Jerombolo]

1 minute ago, Telebubbies said:

I see.. I am not sure on how to do this. But if you are using Windows, I recommend contacting their support if you do not get answers from here. 

I'll wait a bit^^ Now reading over what I wrote, I must say I should go to sleep soon^^

[Mark77]

4 minutes ago, Jerombolo said:

I don't know. But you can press on Over Provisioning in the Samsung Magician program. It created a partition which the suggested volume but then it just says "not  allocated" on that partition which is on my SSD.

Ah sounds pointless on a modern TRIM-capable OS. 

[Jerombolo]

Just now, Mark77 said:

Ah sounds pointless on a modern TRIM-capable OS. 

But I can't delete that partition.

[RedWulf]

Assuming you don't care about the system recovery data on the partitions just use computer management>storage>disk management or a 3rd party program like minitools partition wizard free to delete the 3 parts into unallocated/raw space them extent the main part into the remaining data. 

[Jerombolo]

4 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

Assuming you don't care about the system recovery data on the partitions just use computer management>storage>disk management or a 3rd party program like minitools partition wizard free to delete the 3 parts into unallocated/raw space them extent the main part into the remaining data. 

So I can't delete them without any other program?

[RedWulf]

1 minute ago, Jerombolo said:

So I can't delete them without any other program?

Should be able to* Most of the time you can get by with using windows storage management, I'd try it first. If it fails, I swear by minitools part wizard.

[Jerombolo]

13 hours ago, RedWulf said:

Should be able to* Most of the time you can get by with using windows storage management, I'd try it first. If it fails, I swear by minitools part wizard.

I used it and it worked  Thanks. Now I still have 2 partitions for systemrecovery, should I delete one of those or what am I supposed to do? One has 450MB and the other 800MB. And there is the systemreserved partition which is at 100MB, I can leave that like this, can't I?