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?

  • bisby@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    If those personal photos and videos are important to you, you should have them backed up anyway. If you ever spill anything on that laptop, or it gets dropped or broken or lost. All those things are gone.

    But as others have said, you can sometimes resize a partition from gparted if the drive isnt mounted (ie, use the live USB).

    • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The personal stuff is backed up to Google Drive so if the laptop dies, nothing happens to them.

      I will give g parted a shot too.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    You won’t go very far with 25 GB, especially with backups enabled. Get a new drive or delete other stuff you have on it.

    • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I have been deleting stuff for a long time. It is Windows plus very basic apps at this stage. It is a cheap laptop so I don’t want to replace the drive.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    If you boot off the thumbdrive to the live OS, you can use Gparted to resize the partition. I’m not sure what Mint has for syncing Google Drive, but I’m sure it has something. Worse case, absolutely worse case you could use rsync. That should really not be necessary though. Gnome has an online accounts area and you setup your online drives there like Google Drive and OneDrive and all that. I’ve never used Mint before but, Mate or Cinnamon probably have something similar. I’d be shocked if they didn’t.

      • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I meant rclone. You might be able to do it with rsync too, but rclone is the one I was thinking of. I actually setup my own self hosted Nextcloud server. Then I used rclone to sync everything from gdrive and onedrive to my Nextcloud servers block storage. Then I just use rclone, scheduled on a cronjob, to back up that block storage to storj.io. Anyways, worse case scenario, with rclone, you got something.

  • kabi@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    using “GNOME Online Accounts” you should be able to access Drive files through your default file manager. I’m not sure if you can automatically sync them for offline access.

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      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…

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I like this idea. Zero partitions and presumably 30GB shared with dual boot into Windows and Mint. I need to read up on this one.