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It's not explanatory if one doesn't know the Vivaldi connection?

Thanks all.

Here: System: Kernel: 5.15.0-102-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF v: N/...

I just updated my system from 21.2 to 21.3 and everything went smoothly. Note I have not had Chrome installed on my system nor do I use Google (duck for me) or Google Earth but now there are THOUSANDS of (nearly 3k) files with various permutations of Chrome* files on my system I CANNOT remove. Has M...

EUREKA!!! I found why the partition was full, Clonezilla saved an image there now there's LOTS of space.



Partition:
ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 36.06 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1

Sure here it is:


Partition:
ID-1: / size: 456.89 GiB used: 36.29 GiB (7.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 511 MiB (100.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1

Hi, yeah my machine is Mint only and the drive was partitioned on install as it is. 537 megs seems a lot for a single boot machine made worst by the fact that update mgr doesn't check that it needs more space before destroying the drive.

It seems odd that the default disk sizes upon install are too small to allow update manager up update grub, even stranger (IMO) that a partition size check required to update GRUB is not done a T-0 where an upgrade can be aborted before a drive is destroyed :-) As it is how can I increase the size o...

I just did a fresh install from 21.2 to 21.3 and personalizing it was pretty seamless. My very old Intel 3.6GHz. i7 processor with 16 gigs of memory on a very small 500GB drive have ample resources left for growth on both. I only use the GUI so speed wise I have not noticed any improvement on load t...

Thanks, the GCC tip is a good one.

If y'll go back and read my OP I said NOTHING about removing anything, only to NOT upgrade certain features or programs.

I found Textbelt to be useful for when my, or GF's phone or other is misplaced and if I can streamline it I'll buy a few hundred connections. I can copy the text from textbelt into a shell, edit the phone number and message but I wonder if anyone wrote a script or graphical application that will pro...

I just looked at the update manager and the updates require a lot of data. I only get 40 gigs of data a month on my phone plan (I use it as a hot spot) and some make no sense for me. For example... AMD stuff (I have Intel) Firefox (Never used it) Apache (do not use as a web server) GCC (I don't writ...

The first time it happened a few months ago I swapped over to a backup drive, no biggie but after that I make a copy of the .config file weekly. Today I found the file was again purged and programs like Vivaldi reverted back to the installed state. This time I overwrote the .config file from a backu...

Will / when a 21.2 upgrade DVD be available?

Hoping some gremlins I've had with 21.1 would go away with an upgrade I figured since I have a few drives, I'd take the plunge. The recommendation to apply updates did not work for me. I could NOT apply update manager to THREE cloned drives with it failing at one of the last operations installing GR...

Physically swapped... I tried upgrading the O/S without applying package updates and it worked OK.

Thanks!

I do not have an image or timeshift but I do keep 2 clones and a boot CD made from the 21.1 .ISO

My system is 21.1 single boot one partition and before upgrading to 21.2 I ran the update on all the applications from update manager. I did NOT select the Firefox or Vivaldi updates and when finished the error: "Writing GRUB to boot device failed" error and the drive no longer booted. I t...

I have a need to duplicate my phone's 256 Gig memory card, I want to copy SDHC to SDHC and I have a problem. I can install either card but not both at the same time. Whichever I install first is mounted and recognized by disks, but installing the second card is never recognized on any of the USB por...

I just upgraded to 21 from 20.3, I wouldn't do a fresh install because recovering my machine that way it was in 20.3 would have been a real PITA. I should mention that my main drive is 1TB with two partitions and I never needed the back 500GB so I just ignore all of the gorp that comes with the dist...

I got the upgrade and it went smoothly thanks!!!