I'll pick up and run with this one.
Jeffrey, this would be a good time to start labelling partitions, in particular your / partition, with the name of the Distro, do it in Jeffrey-friendly terms eg LM19-Cinn
Note I say
label,
not Name.
Note what Capta (
@CptCharis ) said here, at #2
https://www.linux.org/threads/quest...g-sdd-after-os-is-installed.19701/#post-58426 ... which said, in part
- You will need to boot from the live cd
- Open up gparted and choose to resize the current Linux partition
- Shrink it from the end
- Now that you have shrunk your partition, there will be some empty space at the end of the drive. Right click on it and pick format. Choose the filesystem and label for it
- Press edit > apply all operations
... my highlighting.
When I suggested your setting up a Timeshift partition and a Data partition on your hard drive, /dev/sda, and labelling them, you set up the partitions and
named them.
No harm, but not as useful.
The labelling field does not allow as many characters as the name partition field, it might be 14 - 16, but a bonus is that that label then appears in your File Managers, and it makes it easier for us to read which Distros are which, with their /'s.
Example from my Caja FM under Ubuntu 18.04.1 'Bionic Beaver' MATE:
SCREENSHOT 1 - MY CAJA VIEW LEFT-HAND PANE
Note straight away how easy (for me) it makes to see what Distros I gave on, and with abbreviations such as HDD, SSD, and WD for the Western Digital My Book ... where they are
For the entries that say Ex-Adata-1 and 2wayAdataDocs, yours might read DATA.
For the ones that read 21GB volume, I often use "DistroReady", meaning I will install one there, and it will be the Distro's /
The 2 x Timeshift is simply indicative of my first setting up a 100 GB space on the HDD /dev/sda, before then setting up a 400 GB one on the WD external. One will be migrated to the other, perhaps.
If you could go ahead and do that with
both your /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, it would help you and us.
All of this comes via GParted, and you will see the extra fields generated as you perform the operation.
Wizard