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HOWEVER Clonezilla can be incredibly difficult to navigate through for newbies. I am not a newbie any more, but I still avoid Clonezilla like the plague, because I simply cant understand it's menu structure. In LinuxMint there is a standard available program called " Disks" that can clone / image /...

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Correct.
You can not edit an active partition.

sdibaja

dorothy39: you said "I do have the Linux installation disk." Good.
That disk contains Gparted.
Use it to boot with, then make your partition changes.

Somebody said you shouldn't edit a live partition. Actually, you can't with Gparted, it will refuse.

my best, Peter

sdibaja

By mistake I installed Linux Mint (19.3) on a partition in the middle of the drive, and that (I think) causes the "attempt to write/read outside of hd0" error. Gparted allows to move partitions, but it shows the warning that says moving partitions has a chance to break system boot. I don't think ha...

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Out of the box, yes

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OK, now I have the image of the existing setup... you can do this: 1. Boot with LMDE 2. Run Gparted ... now only your sdb2 will be mounted (Adata_LMDE4) 3. select sdb4 (your ADATA_19.3) 4. drag Right edge over to a more reasonable size... 25 GB should be fine. 5. select sdb3 (your ADATA_DATA) 6. dra...

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The Mate apps are designed for bottom or top panels. You can adjust the width/depth of any panel to accommodate the fixed dimensions of the app. I do that for a couple I use. I see that 62 pixles will accommodate the clock. Autohide and expand are also handy options. ... Beyond my expertise, but you...

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The OP screenshot is kinda broken, not always showing.
True, it appears like gpt, but maybe it's just the label...

Best of luck

BTW: two partitions are mounted. Those can't be edited now.
Booting from another OS using Gparted will work fine.

sdibaja

clear enough, but a snapshot of a GUI view helps. (being ssd or hdd does not matter! they are the same in respect to the user) It's all personal preference. There is no Best. I am assuming that you are using the msdos partition table and feel hampered by the "4 partition" restriction. You can create...

sdibaja

Yes.
Right click on a free space in your panel
Click on Properties
Select top, bottom, left, right as you prefer.

also!
Right click on a free space in your panel
select Help for a large menu that should explain how Panels work in Mate

sdibaja

I know nothing about nbfc The fans Should come on when it gets hot. Heat kills! It kills, CPUs, Disk Drives, Etc. fans are super cheap, like $8 or Less... and are rather simple to change in most computers. the other components that are being protected are Much more expensive and a lot more difficult...

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Synaptic is a very powerful tool. It is worth your time to learn how it works.
There are lots of settings, many variables ... so it depends on the defaults set by Clem.

setting it to "Delete downloaded packages after installation" would be personal preference, not my preference.

sdibaja

Backup of personal data and reinstall is a better solution... Very few users have the ability to do that painlessly. If not using Timeshift, the sensible thing for almost all users is to back up the system some other way. Telling people to go bare back because it happens to work for you is pretty o...

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We all have opinions: I say with quality control of the updates Before they are pushed up Timeshift has no purpose. Mint just does not have the resources to do that QA and testing in-house, so you get nagged to use the funky tool. I applaud the effort, but I also advise disabling it or uninstalling....

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Hi all, I'm new to mint and I love it, wish I'd dumped Microsoft years ago. I have a 250gb ssd running mint 19.3, but I'm running out of space for installing games etc... Is there a way I can extend d the home folder onto another hard drive i have fitted (1tb mechanical drive)? And would this do wh...

sdibaja

wow, I have never heard of using only FAT32 and NTFS partitions for Linux.
great concept

sdibaja

try using Gparted. It has a "check" feature that can sometimes repair such errors. in this case, the problem partition is Not Mounted so installing Gparted on your system would work for this procedure fine. for mounted partitions (your root, home, and swap) you must boot from another system to edit....

sdibaja

please Google "Windows 10 automatic update destroyed Linux partitions" and review the resulting hits First thing I do on a win10 install - turn it off! Although the latest install (few days back) looks like update is now manual? Just underlines the importance of backups. Good idea, however it actua...

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<snip> Anyway, I am in the process of planning a PC build, starting from scratch, and I want to install a dual boot capability, with Windows 10 and Mint. <snip> as you have just seen there are many ways to setup your drives... of course, I have other personal preferences. *word of caution* please G...

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Pjotr wrote: ↑
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PS: Ubuntu has a much better installer than Linux Mint.
No, it hasn't. It's exactly the same ubiquity; only the theming differs.
I guess you have not used both in the last few months. available Options for selecting Swap, etc. make a world of difference

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