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
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.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 commandOr another method
curl cheat.sh/topicThere’s also a client for it as wellThat’s fair. I have 14 years of experience reading man pages, thanks for sharing the tools!
GParted is a good graphical option that helps you finalize what’s going on, as well.
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?
It is, but it’s usually only available on the live version running off a USB to make it easier to modify the drives.
@aprehendedmerlin
Try that… if not it will just tell you it can’t find it
But it will and you can…
Then Arch wiki it is. Although I hope it’s not too technical
Let me know if you have more questions!