mint partitioning error

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 03:20, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:

> I used etcher to
> install from a mint mirror's .iso

Aha!

Etcher writes ISO images to USB. It does not _install_ anything.

Installing means making a new copy of the OS on a disk. Writing a USB
image to USB is similar to writing it to an optical disk: you are not
installing anything, you're just making a new copy of the installation
disk.

You can't resize your installation partition because you don't have an
installation. You just have an install disk.

If you want to add a data partition, I suggest rewriting the disk
using a tool that lets you specify that you want "persistence", which
means that there will be a small read/write area on your install disk,
and any files you put in there will survive reboots. Unetbootin will
do this.

The Ubuntu "Startup Disk Creator" tool _used_ to offer this but it has
been removed:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/772093/where-is-the-persistent-option-for-startup-disk-creator-in-16-04

Here is another tool that can do it, but I have not tried it and it
looks complicated:
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/


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