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
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.
(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.
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.
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...
EGO II
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