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I'm a noob. I am running Mint 12 Lisa LXDE 64bit. This is a dual boot with Windows 7. Intel board/2.6Ghz dual core/8GB RAM/SATA HDD 2TB.

Well there I was ready to make the leap from Win7 to Mint 12 (love this thing) so I attempt to transfer some picture files from one computer with WinXP to the (dual boot) computer with LXDE Mint 12. Mint says it can't do it because there is not enough space in my "pictures" folder. I was trying to transfer about 4gb but Mint will only let me put in about 2gb. What gives?

Moreover, now when I start up I get a message that "this computer has only 300.0 MB disk space remaining." The fact is, I have used 130GB out of 2TB (2000GB). Why the limitations? I need an easy way to tell Mint its ok lets just increase the available size that Mint sees to the actual physical size available. And to increase size limits of folders, preferably to unlimited. I don't understand why there is a limitation anyway.

I believe I selected 130gb LXDE install which explains the disk error. I do not mind saying goodbye to Win7 permanently, but I need to have the capability to use all available space without limitation on folders/disk. I am the only user of this computer. What do I need to do to remove both limitations? (folders and disk)?

After some reading I thought I could use Gparted to solve the problem but when starting in the gui I get nothing not even a message. So I tried the terminal command in root "gparted" and get:

/usr/sbin/gpartedbin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgiomm-2.4.so.1: undefined symbol: g_socket_atdress_enumerator_get_type

I'm a noob trying to transition. Some things I can learn as I go no big deal. Transfering/saving files is fundamental. If I could let this go while I read up, even a few weeks, I would, but I need some help. This is frustrating. Can anyone help?

Sure, lets first figure out some basics for us. Please open a terminal, and post the output of this command (it will tell us the partition layout of your computer): (Note that is the letter l at the end, not number 1.)

And please share the output the following command also (it will tell us your disk usage statistics):

Thanks for taking the time to help. Sorry I took so long to reply; I thought I would get a email notification. Anyway, the output is as follows:

1. sudo parted -l 2. df -h

Did you install with mint4win or on a virtual machine? Looks like you have a 27GB root filesystem, and no more than this. This also contains the /home folder. For Linux there is just 297MB disk space free remaining.

Confirmed that your Windows partition is 2 TB in size, but you haven't actually installed Linux Mint in its own partition on the harddisk it seems.

I used Mint4win.

Well, okay then. Currently your virtual disk is just 29GB in size. If you want to increase the size, reportedly you can do so with this guide: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 13#p312280

Alternative is to reinstall Linux Mint, but not use mint4win. I haven't found it, but there is also the option to convert you current mint4win installation to a full Linux Mint installation on its own partition (which you can then resize as needed).