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You may be using a new drive, or your drive has been wiped.
GParted is one of the most useful computer tools ever and, in my opinion, the best bootable disk partitioning program.
It is possible to delete, format, resize, copy, and hide any partition recognised by GParted.
In my opinion, having a separate Home partition makes life much simpler in the future when installing a newer version of Linux Mint or another distro.
It is then only necessary to change the root (system) partition whilst still using the existing...
Preserving your existing Home partition when installing a new distro
IMPORTANT
Regardless of the following suggestion on how to preserve your current Home (/home) partition, it is ESSENTIAL to also make a BACKUP of all existing personal data, just in case anything goes wrong!
The backup, to an external hard drive or similar, should include the following:
bookmarks.html (Firefox in my case)
Email profile folder (Thunderbird in my...
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