UEFI oddity.

[Mark Haney]

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On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and
> large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on
> disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430
> with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing
> purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of
> "BIOS".
> 
> I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk:
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors 
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size
> (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size
> (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk
> identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA
> 
> Device           Start          End   Size Type /dev/sda1
> 2048      1026047   500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2
> 1026048    205826047  97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3
> 205826048    222111743   7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4    222111744
> 508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5    508831744
> 509241343   200M EFI System /dev/sda6    509241344    510265343
> 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7    510265344    526551039
> 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda8    526551040    631408639    50G
> Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9    631408640    976773119 164.7G
> Microsoft basic data

Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows
(whatever the version).  What I want to know is how many Windows
'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows.  It /looks/ like
it's got at least 2 'drives', a Windows drive (C:) and possibly a
'data' drive (D:?).  Unless you can tell us what Disk Manager is
saying about the NTFS partitions I'm not sure how much help we can give.

(Unless, of course, you want to blow the whole thing away and start
over, then this is a non-issue.) I don't recall that many NTFS
partitions on the Lenovo systems, but I have one handy and will boot
it to see.  (It's got a 500GB drive, fortunately.)

You can also mount the partitions read only and see what's on them.




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Mark Haney
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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64
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