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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI
From:       Wols Lists <antlists () youngman ! org ! uk>
Date:       2023-04-18 4:49:17
Message-ID: 3968ba0f-5eaa-dceb-5447-c464599aca45 () youngman ! org ! uk
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On 17/04/2023 23:36, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 17 April 2023 21:41:09 BST Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 17/04/2023 17:52, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> Later on a Kubuntu update found Windows, updated the EFI
>>> stuff on the Windows drive and then, I see this morning,
>>> erased everything out of the Kubuntu EFI partition but
>>> left the partition there.
>>
>> I had a similar problem trying to install SUSE to dual boot a laptop. I
>> made the mistake of letting Windows wipe the disk and install itself,
>> with the result I was left with a tiny EFI partition. I couldn't install
>> linux because there was no room.
>>
>> My latest attempt (when I get gentoo video working) will be to *add*
>> Windows to a working system.
> 
> Can you not just resize the partition?
> 
Not any more :-)

But I don't tend to do that sort of thing. Which is why my main (linux 
only) machine has pretty much all the disk in one huge raid partition 
with lvm on top ...

Cheers,
Wol

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