Ok, you might add to the list of commands I gave, Many times the kernel tries to load things on boot, and you get a failed message. But later in the boot it did load them.

Dear friends, thanks for all the friendly and useful input. I really appreciate it. For me forums are one of the good aspects of the internet where ppl help one another just out of good will and empathy.

For the rest, right now I'm typing using my laptop and my Linux Mint "Sylvia" Cinnamon. There will be a lot more to learn now, but the first impression is good.

It loads slower than I had hoped: 48" to get the welcome screen and then another 11" till you are in and all is steady. One minute in total. But nothing compares to the W10 instability. I wonder if it will keep a steady loading behaviour over time.

By the way, I know that the file system works totally different with unix based systems. With Windows I have always kept my data on a different partition so that when the system got messed I could recover it leaving my data intact.

Is there something similar here? Where can I find instructions?

Yes, exactly the same thing. Have a separate partition and mount it as /home - you may have had the option when you installed Mint (never used Mint myself so I don't know). Quick and dirty way may be to repartition and reinstall before you accumulate too many data. A search for "linux partition hard drive" will help.

Two caveats:

(1) Having a separate disk for /home is good for safeguarding your information when reinstalling the OS, but ALWAYS BACKUP FIRST. It should be safe but, to quote Dilbert, "Shift happens".

(2) If you have multiple Linux installations have a separate /home partition for each installation or your configuration files may end up in a knot.

Edit - fixed typo

It may be due to the fact that it's the first boot. Subsequent boots might be faster.

I gathered that much during the debian installation and had /home on a different partition. I'm not sure whether Mint kept the partitioning. Is there a way to inspect the partitions now?

Several ways, among them, inspecting the plain text file /etc/fstab, and checking whether a directory named lost+found exists in the /home directory.

I installed some tool and I see:

/dev/sda1 fat32 /boot/efi 512 MiB
/dev/sda2 ext2 /boot 488 MiB
/dev/sda3 lvm2 pv 930,54 GiB

So, I suppose no real partitioning. I think I should reinstall the os, since the installation was so easy.

Execute mount to see which files systems are mounted. If you see a line for /home, then it's on its own partition.

If I right click on the /home folder I see:
Name: home
location: /
volume: uknown
free space: 919,6 GB

does that tell you anything? Do check the attachment.

It's the same with all other folder though (bin var ..)

To me it seems it's on the same partition.

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In addition, I re-run the installation. I thought I'd do the partitioning myself there. I was following these instructions here: https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-part...ll-linux-mint/

but I wasn't able to release space in order to create new partitions.

When I tried to create "New Partition Table" for /dev/sda (about 1 TB), like suggested in the instructions, I got a message that it's in use by something. :/

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You need to run the partition editor from "live" media, meaning a CD/DVD or USB that you boot to. Whatever media you used to install Mint will work. Boot to that. Once booted, open "gparted" and use that.

As for partitions, looking at having a separate data partition, the simplest setup would be one "ext4" formatted partition for both your /home and /root files. A smaller partition formatted 'linux-swap", and the data partition using the rest of the drive.

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You can also use the command line to check on all of the partitions.

Open your terminal in Mint and run this:

That's a small L:-

If you want to create your own partitions during your Mint installation choose the "something else" option or manual partitioning.

I suggest you make 2 partitions.

Make one Ext 4 / jounaling file system (at least 20 GB) For your system.
Than create one swap partition 1 to 2 GB's.

Mint allocates the partitions in mb so you might want to convert gig's into mb before you start a fresh installation.

Unless you want to make several partitions like /home, /boot/, /root and swap. Not sure if that's what you want?

IF so read up on how much to allocate to the /boot, /root, /home and swap.

The boot partition will need to be a least 250 mb to 1 GB.
The root partition should be at least 20 GB.
The home you can if you want to allocate all of the drive to the home partition except for 1 to 2 GB's for your swap partition.

That sounds like there is a partition that has already been created or it's a Windows partition.

***-::-In order to create a partition you have to have 'free space' to take it from.-::-***

IF you no longer want Windows you will have to use the partition manager to delete the Windows partitions if you want to manually create your partitions for your fresh install.

OR> you can tell the installer that Mint comes with to completely erase Windows and install Mint.

​Linux Mint 18.3 "Sylvia" Installation
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​Start watching at the 2 min. mark​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsIkrx6ndV4


​Beginner's Guide To Installing Linux Mint 18​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdchGgZrMM

Unfortunately it doesn't tell me much about the /Home because the attatchment is in a language I don't understand.

It does show that you have 919,6 GB free which is plenty to create new partitions.

What size HDD do you have?

Ztcoracat, But I gave you the translation, my man. Anyway, forget about it.

Check the attachment for my paritioning with sudo fdisk -l

Like I said earlier my hd is about 1 TB

btw. i'm in the same room with my rooter and my laptop has actually visual contact with the rooter's antenna and the icon on the taskbar tells me it connects at about 50%. Why is that?
:/

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