9 hours ago
Ventoy Experts:
I have a relatively new Dell PC (i7, 16GB memory, 1T SSD disk drive, NVDA graphics card) that came with Windows 11 pre-installed. I am not a big fan of Windows 11 (or any other Microsoft product for that matter!), so I decided to run Linux Mint. I got a SanDisk Ultra 256GB USB3.0 drive and loaded Ventoy 1.1.10 and Linux Mint 22.2 on it. I used the Ventoy instructions and some YouTube videos with no significant problems. That worked great until I rebooted - that's where I learned about the significance of a Live version! I poked around and learned about "persistence", so I did that with no significant problems. That has worked well for me until recently. I now keep getting Mint OS warnings about low disk space (the output of "du" currently shows I have 11M avail on "/"). I did find and use the "ExtendPersistentImg.sh" script to expand my persistence file, and that seemed to work correctly. The problem, however, "persists" (pun intended!) - I am VERY low on available disk space. Sooo, I am reaching out to the experts for help. What do I need to do to solve this problem? I have searched the forums here and found a few posts in the past with a similar (actually identical) problem, but there were no answers. I suppose I could move the "/" directory (or maybe just /home) to the 1T SSD drive, but my goal with this was to have everything on the USB stick.My plan is/was to run one ".iso" (the latest version of Mint) with lots of available space for emails/files/etc.
Thanks for the help.
I have a relatively new Dell PC (i7, 16GB memory, 1T SSD disk drive, NVDA graphics card) that came with Windows 11 pre-installed. I am not a big fan of Windows 11 (or any other Microsoft product for that matter!), so I decided to run Linux Mint. I got a SanDisk Ultra 256GB USB3.0 drive and loaded Ventoy 1.1.10 and Linux Mint 22.2 on it. I used the Ventoy instructions and some YouTube videos with no significant problems. That worked great until I rebooted - that's where I learned about the significance of a Live version! I poked around and learned about "persistence", so I did that with no significant problems. That has worked well for me until recently. I now keep getting Mint OS warnings about low disk space (the output of "du" currently shows I have 11M avail on "/"). I did find and use the "ExtendPersistentImg.sh" script to expand my persistence file, and that seemed to work correctly. The problem, however, "persists" (pun intended!) - I am VERY low on available disk space. Sooo, I am reaching out to the experts for help. What do I need to do to solve this problem? I have searched the forums here and found a few posts in the past with a similar (actually identical) problem, but there were no answers. I suppose I could move the "/" directory (or maybe just /home) to the 1T SSD drive, but my goal with this was to have everything on the USB stick.My plan is/was to run one ".iso" (the latest version of Mint) with lots of available space for emails/files/etc.
Thanks for the help.