Help : To delete windows completely

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I want to remove windows and its partitions, I think i have disk spaces for Windows recovery environment, can i delete one?

username@fedora:~$ lsblk -l 
NAME      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0       7:0    0     4K  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
loop1       7:1    0  63.8M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/2571
loop2       7:2    0  63.8M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/2599
loop3       7:3    0 349.7M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/143
loop4       7:4    0  50.9M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/24505
loop5       7:5    0  91.7M  1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
zram0     251:0    0   7.5G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1   259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   500M  0 part /boot/efi
nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   128M  0 part 
nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   330G  0 part 
nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   990M  0 part 
nvme0n1p5 259:5    0    19G  0 part 
nvme0n1p6 259:6    0   1.4G  0 part 
nvme0n1p7 259:7    0     1G  0 part /boot
nvme0n1p8 259:8    0   124G  0 part /home 

username@fedora: ~ fdisk -l 
Device             Start        End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048    1026047   1024000  500M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2   1026048    1288191    262144  128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3   1288192  693272575 691984384  330G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 955416576  957444095   2027520  990M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 957444096  997306367  39862272   19G Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p6 997306368 1000175615   2869248  1.4G Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p7 693272576  695369727   2097152    1G Linux extended boot
/dev/nvme0n1p8 695369728  955416575 260046848  124G Linux filesystem
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If you are on KDE, you can use “KDE Partition Manager” application and carefully delete unwanted partitions.

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I am using gnome

4

Then you can use GParted

5

Then you can use “Gnome Disks”.

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I recommend using gparted.
You could then remove all the windows partitions (p2, p3, p4, p5, p6)
You also (from within fedora) would want to remove /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft and all its content then run sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg so that grub would no longer present windows as a boot option

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