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?

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I feel like I read somewhere recently (because I was troubleshooting some issues that turned out to be a bad stick of ram) that 50GB is the minimum for Mint. Or at least the recommended minimum for a root partition.

    Your can download zipped photos from Google, but I’d be a bit surprised if they don’t have a Linux app for syncing that.

    • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      I am reading that Google Drive doesn’t have a native Linux app but there are plenty of alternatives and ways to make it work. I guess I will try that as my first option or alternatively offload it all on to a USB stick and transfer it. I could look at sync options as well.

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        That’s weird to me when they need a Linux app for Chromebooks. How much different can it be? But I haven’t looked into it really. I’m trying to reduce the footprint of Google in my life.

    • NBCooks@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      Somewhere in the install process I read 15 GB for Mint and ran with it. It works but nothing can be upgraded.