Have you ordered a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook with Ubuntu Linux and an 8GB or 16GB solid state disk? Bad news greeted new Dell Inspiron Mini 9 owners this week, in the form of a partition error that limited the amount of available disk space on the machine’s 8GB and 16GB.
The problem is apparently that Dell was using the same disc image to format each and every unit shipping with Ubuntu, no matter what size disk it shipped with. You can check to see the size of your partition by opening a terminal and typing “sudo fdisk -l” (without the quotes) and entering your password. You should see a figure that tells you the overall capacity of your disk, followed by the size of your partitions. Dell, for its part, is shipping updated machines that fix this issue. Existing owners looking for a fix have a few options, says Liliputing:
“If you have a USB DVD drive, you can use the system restore disc to reinstall Dell’s custom version of Ubuntu. It will reformat the entire drive.”
“Or you can attempt to resize your partitions. The easiest way to do this is probably to download and install Parted Magic to a USB flash drive and then boot from that drive. Run the gParted partition manager and you should see the 4GB partition that Ubuntu is installed on and 8 or 12GB of unused space. Just grab the edge of the 4GB partition and drag it resize the partition, save your changes and reboot”.
And, don’t worry UbuntuMini.com has your back. You can learn how to make a LiveUSB and then install Ubuntu properly onto your Mini 9. - Install guide HERE
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