How do you resize a /home partition?

[unique lagoon]

Use gparted, if you need to shrink, shrink from the right only.

Using a live USB may be best as none of the partitions will be mounted. And you can't unmount a partition you are booted too, nor work on a mounted partition.

What do you mean?

Select your drive in the right hand side above the partition.

Your mint installation media? Its a live bootable USB in most cases.

Its non persistent, but very useful for doing things like this and repairing grub bootloader, moving files from borked drives. Etc.

Right click on the partition you want to shrink>resize/move

You still need to change the device.

Right hand side above the partition bar. Where it says /dev/sda

Its an iso?

This looks correct.

This does not.

File system should say ext4.

I would use a live USB and see if its gparted says the same thing?

Alright. I gtg for now too.

[haughty arch]

to install native apps, you need space in the root (linux-system) partition. Home is just for pics and docs. Unless u use FATPAK. fatpak places ungodly huge amounts of data in Home. if u can find native apps, avoid and remove flatpak. Also get Bleachbit to clean out junk data from your home and root installation.

I would have just given half the disk for home and half for root, and only 2 GB swap tbh.

learning experience lol

overflow memory aka 'virtual memory' but should be kept minimal like 2 GB, especially if u have at least 4 GB real memory

[cyan venture]

for future reference, an iso image ≠ iso standards (iso 9660 is a CD filesystem)

[haughty arch]

aw yeah you don't need all that swap.. 1 or 2 Gigss

[cyan venture]

do you still need a swap partition anyway? doesn't it just allocate how much it wants in the root without a seperate swap partition?

[haughty arch]

yeah the Automatic install makes a swap file. This changes size on its own. I dont like to see my system drive grow and shrink so I prefer a swap partition.