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?

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    21 hours 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 hours 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.