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Installed Mint (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Mint is great but I have to fix my screwups.

My cheap laptop has a 128GB SSD. I have 30GB available .

I installed Mint on Sunday on a 15GB partition then realized I was immediately out of room.

Now I believe I have reformat, repartition to maybe 25GB and reinstall. Any better options?

Also, I could probably reformat the entire laptop if I could only figure out how to replace the Google Drive for sync backup for roughly 15 GB of personal photos and videos.

Technically, I wouldn’t have to do anything as it is already backed up but I guess I’d need a way to copy everything over to a Linux alternative that can be backed up from Mint.

Thoughts?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Installed mint onto a 125gb ssd. I have it set for boot ~1gb, root 50gb, swap 8gb, and home everything else.

I do find I'm running low on my root drive, but that's because I had a few failed installs of stable diffusion.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the computer’s main use is a printer at this stage and the printer connected to Mint fine. I could probably make the switch as long as the printer works…

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're learning, if this isn't a permanent install just install everything but swap under / (root). It'll be fine and you'll nuke this soon anyway rendering partitions irrelevant. Just put it all in one partition, it's not going to catch on fire.

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