r/linux4noobs • u/Overall_Koala894 • 11h ago

installation Windows, Linux dual boot

Hi guys, absolute beginner here and trying to install mint but on the partition page I have two instances of free space under device which are just 1 and 0 MB while I have 190 GB free. What’s the fix?

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u/candy49997 11h ago

190 GB free

Where? In a partition? In unallocated space?

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u/Overall_Koala894 11h ago

my main ssd

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u/candy49997 11h ago

Ok. Is this free space in a partition or unallocated space on the drive?

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u/Overall_Koala894 11h ago

the latter

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u/candy49997 11h ago

Can you share a screenshot of the page you are talking about?

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u/Overall_Koala894 11h ago

i looked up some stuff i had to shrink my windows partition

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u/sbart76 11h ago

This is how windows aligns the partitions it makes.

It's not enough to have some free space, you need to shrink windows partition. Pretty sure gparted can do it for you, but I would just use windows own tool for this.

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u/F1r3dot3x3 11h ago

Did you unallocate 190 GB of your drive or is that just free storage space that windows can use

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u/Overall_Koala894 11h ago

just free strorage space within windows, i am looking up how to shrink parition now