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For may years now I have used a separate partition for timeshift. Also, again for many years and through many installations, I have set up separate partitions for both home and my username. (I also always keep a separate partition for var to ensure overfilled logs do not crash the system. Each to hi...

Hi all, I have a some nice new HDDs on which to install Mint Vera Cinnamon edition. I will partition the drives up and allocate one of the partitions for my Timeshift snapshots. For me none of this is new and holds no problems. However, I have been wondering where I should mount the Timeshift partit...

Hmm. Not to sure how to post a screenshot. Never worked for me in the past. Agreed, Gparted reports Widows using the entire disk. Hmm. Not to sure how to post a screenshot. Never worked for me in the past. I've typed out the Gparted output but cannot reproduce the spacing. Sorry Agreed, Gparted repo...

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Please see my post futhur down. My typing is severy hampered at the moment and this was posted too early.

Thanks for looking. I have not installed Mint, merely running it from the live USB. Also I have not done anything to Windows. Are you suggesting I run sudo update-grub. from the live DVD? From experiance the Live DVD has always, in the past, recognised other operating systems. I do not see why does ...

I have been given an old Windows laptop and want to dual boot LM21.1 alongside Windows. The laptop belonged to a deceased person so I do not have the password to boot into Windows. To my surprise there is no dual boot option in the installer. I have never come across this before so am seeking advice...

Hi again. I am pleased to be able to report that I now have a completed a successful installation. Unfortunately however, I ended up have to destroying everything on the disk and starting again. I have been fighting so hard to avoid doing that. Anyway, since that was the way forward I took the oppor...

I'm up and been working for ages although it is still only 07:00 Hrs. [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "Installed in UEFI mode" || echo "Installed in Legacy mode" mint@mint:~$ [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "Installed in UEFI mode" || echo "Instal...

The image was downloaded and then verified as directed before burning to the USB stick using the USB image writer from the GUI menu. I have noted before the the more modern live images do not give the option of verifying the burnt image in the same way older Mint versions did. Regrettably the BIOS d...

Gparted output from the problem system Unallocated 969 MiB /dev/sda2 extended 1.82 TiB /dev/sda12 fat32 EFI 100.00 GiB Flags boot, efi /dev/sda13 Ext4 boot 50.00 GiB /dev/sda5 Ext4 root 50.00 GiB /dev/sda6 Ext4 var 50.00 Gib /dev/sda7 Ext4 home 50.00 GiB /dev/sda8 Ext4 diana 100.00 GiB /dev/sda9 Ext...

It was about time I updated my Wife’s machine so I went for a fresh installation from LM Cinnamon 18.3 to 21.1. She has a legacy of a complected partitioning scheme as the image [img]file:/home/alan/gparted_image.png[/img]shews. In order to maintain the contents of many of the partitions as possible...

Well, you’ve done it again altair4. I can’t thank you enough. The share is mounted exactly where you said. Why I could not find it from your original post I do not know. I have looked back but have tried so many attempts I do not know where my error lays - and is bound to be my error. Anyway, this p...

Thank you for that AndyMH. I apologise as I should have elaborated and been more specific in my question. I have a network share from another Mint 21.1 machine that I mount via the network icon. It opens easily enough and I then have read and write access to all the files without any problem. Howeve...

Just a quick question. Where are shares mounted in 21.1 Cinnamon? In this post viewtopic.php?t=170956 altair4 said that they were in but that was back in 2014 and no longer seems to be the case.

Don’t forget that you can dual boot Windows and Mint by letting the Mint installer sort out the space it needs alongside Windows. That will happen seamlessly if you chose the “Alongside” option.

Sorry but I can’t help with your playing DVD’s problem as I have that little problem as well. However, if it of any help I use a command eject-T to open and close the DVD/CD tray. I created a shortcut for it on my desktop - I called it ‘DVD_eject - so it s easily available. Alternative clicks on thi...

Hi kato181, Sorry I have been a long time replying. It seems that my BIOS has failed rather than the rest of the board. F2 should get me into the BIOS and sometimes it does. Most of the time it doesn’t. However, even when the BIOS does appear I can do noting with it. I am unable to move up or down, ...

When I opened it to reset the BIOS I took the opportunity to give it a good clean (can of air duster). I have worked on the insides of many machines over the years and was very pleased to see just how clean it all was. The 2 HDD fans, both case fans as well as the PSU fan were all fine as was the cp...

Not a Mint problem but not sure who else to ask. Pointers will be appreciated. Having an increasing number of intermittent oddities. First, I noticed that, particularly in LO spreadsheets I was having to do Ctrl+S or File> save two or three times before the file would save. Next I found that audio C...

I use installation media at various physical locations where I help other linux users as well as other physical machine here. Media can suffer degradation or damage over time hence the need to check it is okay before each time I use it.