I know I don’t have to start this with I’m new, you can already tell lol but I just want to make sure I will not cause any problems having files on there I’m confused trying to answer this on my own, thanks for any help in advance! I deleted windows and ignorantly extended my boot partition to take up all of the space and now realize I should have separated the two just curious if it’s safe to use it like this

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Your boot partition or your root (/) partition?

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Yes the root partition

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That’s fine, nothing wrong with storing files on your root partition.

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Tools like GParted should be able to safely reduce the size of the partition so you can add a second. (Always backup data in case)

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Oh okay, I used gparted to do this I just thought making the partition smaller now would possibly ruin my boot, thank you!

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