home storage space wont increase stuck on 8gb when it should be over a tb | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:06 AM

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this is preventing me from doing more then a handful of applications as the space gets clogged easily

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:07 AM

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wait up. . u fully installed like i said before right?

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with the erase and install option onto the nvme of your choice?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:07 AM

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believe so even resetted

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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ok and then u rebooted into the completed install ?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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yes i think so

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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and you got a welcome app show up ?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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dont recall i saw the green icon

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its the top of the list right?

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:08 AM

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once at desktop u got a welcome app?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:09 AM

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not 100% sure think i didnt

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tho everything was gone so i think so

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:09 AM

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what are u staring at right now? a blank desktop?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:09 AM

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as i had steam and no longer had steam

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:11 AM

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dim mountain as i had steam and no longer had steam

is there an 'install linux mint' icon on your desktop right now, yes or no?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:13 AM

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yes

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:14 AM

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dont boot from that

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u can see it says OEM

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that's the live installer's GRUB

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set your UEFI/BIOS to boot from the 'ubuntu' listing,

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:15 AM

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understood

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:15 AM

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which should appear alongside the model name of the nvme drive u installed on

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:16 AM

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brb

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:19 AM

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your grub menu should look like that

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roughly accurate to the distro

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or it may just load direct to the OS

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which you'll be hit in the face with a huge white Welcome app and 'first steps' thing

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:24 AM

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i believe its fixed i was booting from live and had to go to my uefi setting to boot from the unbuntu

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:24 AM

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can u now run a lsblk -f and show it maximized

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:25 AM

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:26 AM

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sdb1 is choked full, btw

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is sda a removable drive?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:26 AM

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yea i know i need to buy a new larger harddrive

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and yea i think so maybe

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:26 AM

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wait a sec

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do:
lsblk -o NAME,TYPE,MODEL,LABEL,SIZE,FSSIZE,FSTYPE,FSUSED,FSAVAIL,MOUNTPOINT

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all one line precisely as

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:28 AM

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control v dosent seem to work

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:28 AM

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ctrl-shift-v

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:28 AM

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ty

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:28 AM

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for terminal way of paste

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any other app , it's ctrl-v

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:28 AM

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understood

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:30 AM

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for your own sake, so u can see the labelling better, do Ctrl-

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as in, ctrl minus a few times

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then hit up arrow, and repeat last command

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:31 AM

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so go to terminal and press crtl - ?

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:31 AM

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anyway. u can clean up the other junk as u wish

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yes plz

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:31 AM

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ok one sec

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:31 AM

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numerous times to shrink the font, and maximize the term. window

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:32 AM

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:32 AM

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your linux install now has 859 binary gigs (GiB) of free space on your nvme1n1 partition 2

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:33 AM

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understood im still new so im not sure how to go about that

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this isnt windows

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:33 AM

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i would make it a priority to label all your ext4 partitions

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use no spaces in labels , only underscor if u wish, and no more than 10 or 11 basic characters

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:34 AM

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understood

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:34 AM

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use the Disks app for that. click a valid partition, the gear icon, and then 'edit filesystem'

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:35 AM

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so all the disks that appear there label them?

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nevermind

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:36 AM

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except the ntfs

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:36 AM

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i understand what you mean now

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i was going to label is like this but its not the entire drive its parts of the drive

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:37 AM

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nvme1n1p1 can be labeled ESP - for (efi system partition) which as u can see is where it's mounted as, and is critical for booting

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:37 AM

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dim mountain i was going to label is like this but its not the entire drive its parts of the ...

this has absolutely NOTHING to do wiht ur current install

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swap is builtin as a file.

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:38 AM

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oooh

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:38 AM

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u can basically delete everything on nvme0n1

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:39 AM

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which one does it?

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:39 AM

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this is your whole linux install

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:40 AM

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dim mountain which one does it?

if u want to clear off that whole drive, first u must click stop for every partition on it

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:40 AM

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ok

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all should be off

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:41 AM

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nvme0n1 partition 4, showed in lsblk to have some data used

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6.8 gigs worth

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if that was a failed or bad install, then just wipe the whole drive from the dots menu

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:42 AM

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yes but im still trying to figure out how to delete these

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before i move to p4

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:42 AM

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dont delete p4 til u investigate it

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:42 AM

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ok

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:42 AM

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go to nvme0n1 drive

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click p4

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click the play icon under the chart

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then the blue link

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:43 AM

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garbage

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:43 AM

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u sure?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:43 AM

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yep nothings in there

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:43 AM

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nothing of importance in that aqua folder?

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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no i think it might have been wiped before

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in one of my failed attempts

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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aight go back to the disk app n hit the stop button

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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ok

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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for partition 4 of nvme0n1

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then go to the dots menu at the titlebar top right

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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idk if theres like a disk recovery thing i can do

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:44 AM

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format drive

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your whole new install is here:

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on drive nvme1n1

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:45 AM

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understood

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:46 AM

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gpt style, quick erase

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:46 AM

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sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:46 AM

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sacred harbor gpt style, quick erase

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do NOT overwrite shit

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unless u wanna sit there n wait

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:47 AM

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ok

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so back onto the3 dots

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:47 AM

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then hit + on the new free space, new volume

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give it a simpleass name/label

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make as OTHER: BTRFS type for maximum space efficiency

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:48 AM

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im not seeing a + sign

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:48 AM

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it'll show after u wipe the thing

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and it's all free space

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:49 AM

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im supposed to be on format disk screen right?

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:49 AM

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dim mountain

did u finish this or not? QUICK ERASE

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:49 AM

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i dont see quick erase on either of the menus

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:49 AM

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click the dropdown

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i said DONT overwrite

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:50 AM

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all i see im not overwriting it

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:50 AM

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yes click that

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:50 AM

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which one

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:50 AM

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omg

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what u just showed

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dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:51 AM

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so back to the format image

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:51 AM

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do that IMMMEDIATELY

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on the proper drive

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and FAST ERASE

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GPT style

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:51 AM

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should be what your asking for

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its on the quck option

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:52 AM

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hit format

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:52 AM

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ok

sacred harbor Oct 16, 2025, 12:52 AM

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then the plus later n make as OTHER: BTRFS

dim mountain Oct 16, 2025, 12:52 AM

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also what does BTRFS mean

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everything looks to be correct so i belive i should click to red format button

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