Dell Mini 9 has manufacturing error

I had just received my Mini 9 this week and had only a few hundred MB remaining on a 16GB drive. Dell staff was no help, they told me to call Conical who suggested I create a new partition and create a shortcut to it. I certainly would not! So my fix was to boot from a USB Ubuntu bootable drive, so the file system was unmounted and then adjust the partition size, with gparted.

I thought all Ubuntu models shipped with 8GB SSDs? Or are you just outside the UK?

Also, Dell only support the hardware on their Linux models - all support is handled by Canonical. Strange that they wouldn't know the answer though!

I am in the USA. 16GB it is. Dell passed me to several people before one of the Dell employees gave me to a number to ring up for Conical. Conical first wanted to have me use gparted to create a ext3 partition from the unused space and then create a separate shortcut to the new partition. I created a bootable USB drive and once the main SSD was not mounted I extended the main partition. Now Last night I wiped out everything and formatted the SSD with ext2 and reloaded Ubuntu. Ext2 by design will put less wear on the Solid State Drive, because it doesn't have the journal writing.

I ordered a Dell mini and after numerous phone calls to get it to me within the two weeks that they said,they then sent me an e mail telling me I would need to wait another two weeks making it one month. I should have been told this when I placed the order as most orders only take two days to arrive. Dell has been the worst internet experience I have ever had.If you phone them you go through hundreds of messages only to be kept on hold by their customer services, or cut off.

Received my Dell mini from Vodaphone, arrived with dead battery that would not charge. Dell diagnosed motherboard problem and have collected it for repair, just wandered if any else had battery problems. BTW found their indian call centre suprisingly efficient.

Dave, I just got a Dell Mini 9 with a battery that will not charge. Online Chat Rep is sending me a new battery and a return box in case the battery does not fix it.