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Topic: Cant delete ext4 partition

On my micro sd there are 2 partitions. The first one being a fat32 partition with 263MiB allocated space and a ext4 partition with 14.17GiB allocated space but only with 4.67GiB of space free on it. The fat32 partition exists because of my raspberry pi. My problem is following: ive tried many many programs/partition editors - including GParted - and none of them had success deleting the ext4 "rootfs" partition for no particular reason. Any help would be appreciated. Im a total newcomer to these kind of things soo much thanks in advance!

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Re: Cant delete ext4 partition

You can verify that the partitions to delete are unmounted.
GParted livecd doesn't mount any partition, by default. Some Linux distros use perhaps "automount" by default.

In case you want to delete all partitions on the card, you can try to "create a new partition table". Please be very careful because there is no UNDO in case of wrong drive selection.

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Re: Cant delete ext4 partition

class413 wrote:

You can verify that the partitions to delete are unmounted.
GParted livecd doesn't mount any partition, by default. Some Linux distros use perhaps "automount" by default.

In case you want to delete all partitions on the card, you can try to "create a new partition table". Please be very careful because there is no UNDO in case of wrong drive selection.

Thanks for the reply. I‘ll try that out as soon as possible!