UEFI oddity.

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote:
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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
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>> 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.
>
> There are no windows drives on the disk. First thing I did after 
> getting the PC was to format the disk.
>
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>> (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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> Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is 
> linux drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. I'll 
> have to wait, right now it's running a lengthy benchmark.
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Would it be considered "bad" to just blow the drive away and use it with 
an ext4 file format? Or is that just not possible? just wondering if I 
should happen to run across one of these kinds of laptops...


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