Installing Mint 18 alongside Mint 18 and partition errors

Novatian · 12-07-2016, 12:22 AM

On my desktop, I am installing Mint alongside Mint. I have a 500GB HDD.

During install I get this message:
the test of the fviole system with type ext4 in partition #5 of SCI1()o,0,0)(SDA) found uncorrected errors.

if you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct these errors, the partition will be used as is.

Is there a fix?

Here is a screenshot:

c0wb0y · 12-07-2016, 06:53 PM

sda5 seems to have a current Mint installed? To which partition the new Mint is going to?

Novatian · 12-07-2016, 06:57 PM

In Mint 18, it goes to the larger space automatically, choosing the "alongside" option. It gives me a choice dividing up the 300GB between the 2 Mints, I can reduce the crippled one to 50GB.

c0wb0y · 12-07-2016, 07:03 PM

In Mint, is there any option where you can manually specify/create partition where to put the new install? Or you don't have that much control?

Novatian · 12-07-2016, 07:11 PM

I am not familiar with manual partitioning. I worry that it will erase the other two installs which still have documents. By the way, using the Mint 18 live USB right now it seems I cannot mount the HDD to access old documents.

I have made partitions before but that was parted magic. Have you any recommendations?

c0wb0y · 12-07-2016, 07:41 PM

Fair enough.

Working with Linux requires a bit of care. So you want to mount a partition and access documents. Before you can mount it, have to know which partition (and its filesystem) where the documents reside. Especially if the filesystem is non-Linux based such as ntfs or fat32. NTFS support in Linux is pretty good this days. You can use ntfs-3g to mount and manipulate files.

To cut the story short, if it's linux-based, usually

Code:

mount /dev/sd<whatever> /<mountpoint>

and filesystem gets automatically detected.

Windows fs:

Code:

ntfs-3g /dev/<whatever> /<mountpoint>

Habitual · 12-08-2016, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by c0wb0y

In Mint, is there any option where you can manually specify/create partition where to put the new install? Or you don't have that much control?

FYI: "Something else" is the labeled designation.
Utterly controllable.