ESP dual boot Windows 10

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 15:49:56 UTC 2016


On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:15:51 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> On 13 December 2016 at 11:34, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What does "normally" mean in relation to partitioning?
>
>
> It means, do whatever you want as long as you leave the special
> FAT-format EFI System Partition alone. It's the one at the start of the
> disk.
>
> As for the rest, for more detail, well, you have not told us enough.
>
> How is the disk partitioned at the moment? Is it GPT or MBR? Do you want
> to keep Windows? Do you have a Windows recovery partition? Do you have a
> system image partition? Do you want to keep them too?

It's GPT.  I want to keep Windows.  There's no Windows recovery partition.

What's a system image partition?


thanks,

Thufir

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 13 December 2016 at 11:34, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What does "normally" mean in relation to partitioning?
>
>
> It means, do whatever you want as long as you leave the special
> FAT-format EFI System Partition alone. It's the one at the start of
> the disk.
>
> As for the rest, for more detail, well, you have not told us enough.
>
> How is the disk partitioned at the moment? Is it GPT or MBR? Do you
> want to keep Windows? Do you have a Windows recovery partition? Do you
> have a system image partition? Do you want to keep them too?
>
> If it's MBR, my recommenation is always:
>
> [ESP] [Windows primary] { Extended partition (Ubuntu root) (Ubuntu
> home) (Ubuntu swap) }
>
> {} denotes the extended partition
> () denotes logical drives
>
> If it's GPT there are no primary/extended/logical partitions any more.
> There are just partitions, all equal.
>
> In which case, I suggest:
>
> [ ESP ] [ Windows ] [ Ubuntu root ] [ Ubuntu home ] [ Ubuntu swap ]
>
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