On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:54 PM, tech@reachthetribes.org <tech@reachthetribes.org> wrote:
Hi everyone, I just purchased a dell xps 13 and I am getting ready to set up dual boot. I noticed that the hard drive (in windows) has 3 partitions in this order: 500mb EFI partition, the operating system (C drive, 117gb), and an 850mb recovery drive after that.
Using the windows shrink tool, I am freeing up 83gb of the windows partition to install opensuse. I know that I will have a swap, the root partition, and a data partition.
My question is, is this likely to present a problem for the windows recovery partition, since it is at the end of the drive, and my windows and linux partitions are in the middle? I have no idea what windows will do when all of a sudden there are 3 extra partitions in between it and the recovery partition.
Windows won't care so long as it doesn't recognize the partition type GUID for those partitions. Older versions of parted improperly set the partition type GUID for Linux partitions to the GUID for Windows, and Windows will actively encourage the user to format those partitions because a.) it properly thinks it owns them, seeing as they have a Windows partition type GUID and b.) doesn't recognize the contents of the partition, since it doesn't know what Linux file systems are. The easiest way to check this and fix it if wrong is with gdisk. # gdisk -l /dev/sdX If any of the Linux paritions have type code 0700, it should be changed to 8300. Only Windows partitions should have type code 0700. Note that those type codes are disk vernacular, the actual code used on disk is a GUID (rather long). -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org