Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 100% Disk Usage

[Larry78723]

Was that HDD a brand new drive? I've seen this issue before, there's a possibility that it came to you without a partition table. That would cause what we're seeing with /home being mounted at sda instead of sda1. That means that you didn't notice during the install that the sda drive didn't have a sda1 partition while setting up the 'other' install.

Please run the following command again:

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df -h

[poue]

Was that HDD a brand new drive? I've seen this issue before, there's a possibility that it came to you without a partition table. That would cause what we're seeing with /home being mounted at sda instead of sda1. That means that you didn't notice during the install that the sda drive didn't have a sda1 partition while setting up the 'other' install.

Please run the following command again:

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df -h

I don't recall the brand and couldn't get it without tearing the machine apart. I do know it was in use before this install, and at the
time of the install I formatted the HD during the live install.

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itx@itx-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  1.9M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  228G   68G  149G  32% /
tmpfs           7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/nvme0n1p1  567M  7.9M  560M   2% /boot/efi
/dev/sda        5.5T  2.6T  2.7T  50% /home
tmpfs           1.6G  116K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
itx@itx-desktop:~$ 

[poue]

It seems that you are saying this

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/dev/sda        5.5T  2.6T  2.7T  50% /home

is the issue. How do I correct it from here?

[SMG]

How do I correct it from here?

I will defer to the advice of others on the best way to handle this.

I will let you know if you boot to a live session of Mint from an install usb/dvd, you can access GParted which helps with partition changes. Because you would be booted to the usb/dvd, that means you can unmount the drive on which /home is located to make changes. I do not know if the changes can be made on that disk or whether you would need to backup your /home elsewhere so you can redo the partitions on the disk. If you can post a screenshot of that drive in GParted, that would give us an idea how it is being seen right now.

Was that HDD a brand new drive? I've seen this issue before, there's a possibility that it came to you without a partition table. That would cause what we're seeing with /home being mounted at sda instead of sda1. That means that you didn't notice during the install that the sda drive didn't have a sda1 partition while setting up the 'other' install.

Can those changes be made after installation?

[deepakdeshp]

If sda s capacity is fully available and there are no usage problems, you should ignore this. Otherwise you have to take a backup of sda on a removable drive,create a file system with as many partitions you want , add entries for then in fstab.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Insta ... wHardDrive