I have the partition setup below. I have a dual boot set up where I initially installed windows on sda2 on a new drive. While installing, windows created the 142M (sda1) partition. Before the windows install sda1 and sda2 were the same, meaning I only had 6 partitions in all. After installing windows I installed Ubuntu 14.04.
My ubuntu install overwrote the Windows boot information. So now I don't get a windows option on boot. This is ok because I actually don't use the windows partition. In fact, I would like to format sda2 as a linux partition and use it for extra storage space.
My question: if I format sda2, will ubuntu fail to load? I don't know whether the initial windows boot information (which ubuntu later overrode) is on sda1 or sda2. Can I safely format sda2?
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 142M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 28.9G 0 part /windows
├─sda3 8:3 0 933M 0 part /boot
├─sda4 8:4 0 6.9G 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 30.2G 0 part /
├─sda6 8:6 0 29.8G 0 part /home
└─sda7 8:7 0 15.1G 0 part