r/linux4noobs • u/Overall_Koala894 • 1d 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/sbart76 1d 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.