On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:59 AM Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 5/9/19 3:35 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install > > fedora 30 too. > > > /dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 998574734 998007439 475.9G Microsoft basic data > > /dev/nvme0n1p4 998576128 1000214527 1638400 800M Windows recovery > > environment > > My preferred method is to install gparted on the live image and use it > to shrink the big Windows partition by at least half. Then do the > install into that space. >
Thanks for the tip. One further info is that the disk is seen marked as gpt from fdisk. Having searched around in the mean time I found some further info, as I have not been quite familiar with gpt disks until now... It seems gparted doesn't work well with gpt and many advise to use gdisk/sgdisk utilities instead, if I have understood correctly More, if disk is gpt I'm no more limited with 4 primary partitions, so in theory I think I could shrink the 45Gb partition and then create 2 more partitions for / fs (comprising /boot directory inside it) and swap partition (just to manage possible events of shortage of memory, even if I have 16Gb of ram on the laptop...) I have doubt about numbering, because p3 will become smaller and if I create in the middle of p3 and p4 two more partitions, what will happen? And could I still use the Windows Recovery one...? I also found some references that now you can shrink from Windows itself the partition where it is running, so perhaps I could shrink from within it and also create two more partitions then... and finally reboot and install Fedora? Making a simulation from within windows, without confirming, it says that it would be able to shrink from about half the size at about 242000 MBytes... Thanks for further advices guys... this UEFI, secure boot, gpt things are not so familiar for me.... I needed about 20 minutes before being able to boot from usb key... ;-) Gianluca
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