On 5/10/19 4:37 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
One further info is that the disk is seen marked as gpt from fdisk.
Yes, that is required for UEFI.
Having searched around in the mean time I found some further info, as I
have not been quite familiar with gpt disks until now...
It seems gparted doesn't work well with gpt and many advise to use
gdisk/sgdisk utilities instead, if I have understood correctly
You must be seeing really old info, because I've been using it for years
with no problem.
More, if disk is gpt I'm no more limited with 4 primary partitions, so
in theory I think I could shrink the 45Gb partition and then create 2
more partitions for / fs (comprising /boot directory inside it) and swap
partition (just to manage possible events of shortage of memory, even if
I have 16Gb of ram on the laptop...)
That's correct. (I assume you mean the 475GB partition though.)
Usually you will also want a /home partition as well.
I have doubt about numbering, because p3 will become smaller and if I
create in the middle of p3 and p4 two more partitions, what will happen?
And could I still use the Windows Recovery one...?
Yes, it's all fine.
I also found some references that now you can shrink from Windows itself
the partition where it is running, so perhaps I could shrink from within
it and also create two more partitions then... and finally reboot and
install Fedora?
Making a simulation from within windows, without confirming, it says
that it would be able to shrink from about half the size at about 242000
MBytes...
You can try, but I find it doesn't work as well as gparted. Just make
sure you backup anything important from the Windows side. In the very
many dual-boot installs I've done, I've only had a couple that Windows
wouldn't boot after. No data lost though. Make sure you do a clean
restart from Windows before.
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