On Thu 05 Dec 2024 at 20:24:05 (+0100), Hans wrote: > So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in > BIOS > (my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive.
Why did you stick with MBR partitioning rather than GPT? > Now I am hasseling with the drive, as I want NVME-mode of course, because it > is faster. And of course, I do not want to reinstall everything! It might be a good thing that you are starting over. > I saw some documentations, how to get EFI on the drive, but it looks, you > need > a seperate partition with FAT to get EFI on, right? > > However, I saw also the possibility to get EFI on my seperate /boot partition. With an ESP, you wouldn't need a separate /boot partition. > What can I do? I would like to keep the existing partitions. However, I > could > shrink them. At the moment, my drive looks at this: > > primary partition Windows-boot ntfs > primary partition Windows ntfs > primary partition /boot /dev/sda3 ext4 > extended partition /dev/sda4 > logical partition /dev/sda5 swap > logical partition /dev/sda6 / ext4 > logical partition /dev/sda7 encrypted home > logical partition /dev/sda8 encrypted usr > logical partition /dev/sda9 encrypted var > logical partition /dev/sda10 encrypted data Why do you want so many separate partitions on a notebook? > What do you think, might be the best way? > > Some better ideas? I see that Andrew posted a summary of how you could proceed. Others might do the same. But there were so many pitfalls in your first attempt, would it not be sensible for you to post, in a little more detail, how you intend to build the next machine, invite criticism, and then refine your plan, rather than just going for the "big reveal" in a few days time. Personally, my biggest worry would be dealing with Windows. But I don't know what resources you have for that. Cheers, David.
