File Systems

Linux in my pocket I have a Windows 10 laptop that I can’t install Linux on. It’s a decent laptop with a nice form factor. It weighs half what my workhorse laptop does, and I want to take it on a trip where I’ll need to do many Linuxy things. (WSL has too many unknowns and potential blockers for me to be OK relying on). Short version: install the installer to a small flash drive, then boot into that and select the other flash drive as ext4 to install to....

My docker-compose experiments filled up the 50G SSD partition pretty quick. I still had 500 GB of my 1TB drive unallocated, so I figured out how to make a mount, then symlinked the docker dir there. Format the partition (Linux Mint UI) Menu > Disks > 1.0 TB Hard Disk > Unallocated > + > Ext4 Investigate the file system 1 df -h I saw a new /dev/db3 device...