05-11-2026, 10:56 PM
(05-10-2026, 03:29 PM)longpanda Wrote: continue screenshots
SUCCESS! Thank you, @longpanda for all the help! While there are some things I want to learn more about (i.e. break=bottom appears to be something handy to know), as I was looking through all your attachments, one thing immediately stood out. Since I have had a persistence that was working "correctly", I have always booted into the persistence model.One of your screenshots indicated you had to get OUT of persistence for the "ExtendPersistentImg.sh" to work correctly. Sooo, I rebooted and chose to boot without persistence, and ran the ExtendPersistImg.sh command. I got:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.6G 2.1M 1.6G 1% /run
efivarfs 438K 228K 206K 53% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/mapper/ventoy 2.9G 2.9G 0 100% /cdrom
/cow 31G 3.4G 26G 12% /
tmpfs 7.7G 4.0K 7.7G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 7.7G 16K 7.7G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 1.6G 2.6M 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
mint@mint:~$
COOLNESS! I still want to upgrade to the latest Linux Mint version and upgrade to the latest Ventoy version but, for now, I am happy. Thank you again!
I do have one more question. How do I know when I have exhausted my disk space? I have a 256GB USB 3.0 thumb drive. My initial goal was to have one version of Linux Mint on the drive and have the rest for files/email/etc. I now want to include the Ventoy un-tar'ed and un-zip'ed files (let's call it 50MB). Linux Mint is about 3GB. For simplicity sake, let's be very generous and call it 4GB for Mint and Ventoy. When I initially loaded Ventoy, I did not include any "extra" space. That means I have one 250GB partition (Ventoy) and one 34MB partition (Partition 2 - unknown). I suppose I can keep track myself (just don't ExtendPersistentImg.sh any more than (250-4) 246 GB total). Or, is there a better way (like assuming the ExtendPersistImg.sh script will return failure if I ask for more disk space than available)???