> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2024 at 2:24 PM
> From: "Hans" <hans.ullr...@loop.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: From SSD to NVME
>
> Hi folks,
>
> as promised I send you my experiences with cloning to NVME.
>
> 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.
>
> Firts reboot worked well, no problems. But then I realized, that if you want
> NVME mode, you MUST use native UEFI in BIOS settings.
>
> However, doing so, neither Debian nor Windows will boot. Of course: There is
> no EFI partition on my harddrive, as I never needed one (still).
>
> 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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> So I could shrinken some partitions and create a new logical one.
>
> Other option would be, delete "swap" partition and make a new "EFI" partition.
>
> What do you think, might be the best way?
>
> Some better ideas?
>
> Thanks for reading this.
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>
Well it looks like you have a big job ahead of you.
Shrinking the swap partition is the easy way to get some room as you can create
a swap file to take its place.
The real issue is that the efi partition if I recall correctly has to be a
primary partition.
Can you go to GPT istead of MSDOS MBR?
