Chapter 5. Utilizing Storage and Media

So far in our adventure, we have learned the basics of how to install and configure a Linux Mint system. We have looked at the best practices for installation, how to use the Cinnamon user interface, as well as how to execute commands in a Linux shell. However, we are yet to cover how Mint handles storage. With cloud-based storage becoming more and more accessible to all users (even beginners), removable media such as flash drives and external hard drives are not used as often as they used to be. However, removable media is still an important subject today, and it is important to know about managing internal storage as well.

Linux Mint offers custom tools for managing removable storage. For example, there is a tool for analyzing exactly where your used disk space is being heavily utilized, burning optical media, formatting USB flash drives, and even a tool for writing Linux ISO images to flash drives so that you can boot from them.

In this...