Based on my post here you would need to create PM toward myself and let us know, after inviting @Gavaudan to this PM (or rather vice versa - invite myself to this PM), output of sudo fdisk --list
after logged into PureOS. When I have more time I might check this output (nothing promising).
Until than, I’m not familiar with Pop!_OS but if you are referring to your /dev/sda3
partition, in order to have it used again, that I assume needs to be reused again (within your current Linux installation/setup, please keep it as is) you might want to proceed with following:
sudo umount /dev/sda3
sudo mkdir /mnt/PartSDA3
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/PartSDA3
cd /mnt/PartSDA3
ls -la
−− check content of this partition, now you can use Nautilus
as well (under Other Locations
), transfer files that you perhaps need on some safe place.
cd ~
sudo umount /mnt/PartSDA3
Above introduction into your non-mounted sda3
partition is important for yourself. Now my suggestion would be to make it as free space
, perhaps by using GParted
and expand
your /dev/sda4
partition over this 538 MB FAT
(not to be used any more as is at this point of time) partition.
And, as you are already advanced user there, please just do not to think about third Linux distribution over there until above solved (on first HDD
with Disklabel type: dos
). Although Debian 12 (work-in-progress version) sounds fine to me, just avoid reusing /dev/sda
for something/anything else.
P.S. You brought PureOS
to work on non-Purism hardware fluently, therefore please do not think about braking this installation with unnecessary “force” to have there additional Linux distribution that actually/perhaps you do not need (I guess). Just booting other distribution live-image
on this PC is the way to rethink your next step …