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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:33:47 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> You don't have to do something about it, if you want to retain the |
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> ability to use Grub. If you will no longer use grub then you probably |
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> do not need the first grub-specific partition. |
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You don't need to anyway. You only need that partition when using GPT on |
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a non-UEFI system. GRUB will boot from the UEFI ESP quite happily, |
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although not on Peter's system for some reason. |
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This is how I have partitioned my NVMe drive for UEFI booting (using |
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bootctl, which is the same as systemd-boot) |
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GPT fdisk (gdisk) version |
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1.0.1 |
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Partition table scan: |
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MBR: protective |
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BSD: not present |
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APM: not present |
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GPT: present |
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Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. |
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Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 250069680 sectors, 119.2 GiB |
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Logical sector size: 512 bytes |
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Disk identifier (GUID): 0EB51C66-3333-494C-80F3-9ACB1D95325D |
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Partition table holds up to 128 entries |
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First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 250069646 |
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Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries |
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Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB) |
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Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name |
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1 2048 2099199 1024.0 MiB EF00 boot |
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2 2099200 18876415 8.0 GiB 8200 swap |
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3 18876416 250069646 110.2 GiB 8300 root |
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Neil Bothwick |
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