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
    71·
    16 hours 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·
      8 hours 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.