Disk management in Linux for newbies (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Hi guys, wanted to know what the best way a newbie like me learn to do disk management stuff (like adding devices, managing formats and partitions and so on) in Linux mint. gui is prefered but I'm willing to learn the terminal way too if it has benefits and more control. Thank you for your time

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The Arch Wiki article for Partitioning is a good starting point.

Additionally, you can run man [command name] to find the manual for each command that you're trying to use.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Man pages are a headache for me a lot of the time. Even with using / to search through it.

https://tldr.sh/

Alternatively install the tldr client and just run tldr command

Or another method

curl cheat.sh/topic There's also a client for it as well

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

GParted is a good graphical option that helps you finalize what's going on, as well.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Is gparted installed on mint by default? If not can I install it with a simple "apt install gparted" or it has a custom repo?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It is, but it's usually only available on the live version running off a USB to make it easier to modify the drives.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

@aprehendedmerlin

Try that... if not it will just tell you it can't find it

But it will and you can...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Then Arch wiki it is. Although I hope it's not too technical

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Let me know if you have more questions!

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