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?

  • ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    21 hours 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·
      21 hours 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
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        21 hours 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
          3·
          20 hours 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.