• boonhet@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      I mean you still have a separate EFI partition under Linux. Personally I also have a separate /home partition which is heavily recommended in case you nuke your Linux either on purpose or accidentally. You may also want to create other partitions, like swap, though I just have a swapfile.

      Is the an installer that only creates only one partition, no EFI system partition?

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        3 days ago

        Yup, last time I installed Ubuntu it was that, one partition. So now, what has @henfredemars got “not right”?

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          2 days ago

          That you have to manually specify partitions in Windows?

          You literally don’t have to create a single one, only point it at empty space or a partition you’re willing to have it delete for space. It handles the rest. Does it matter how many partitions it creates?

          Did you install that Ubuntu on a legacy BIOS system or maybe one with an existing EFI partition? Because I can’t see how you could have a modern OS without at least two partitions.

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            2 days ago

            The point was that you have to manually remove them, not create

            Or maybe I missed the EFI partition when run gparted after installation, it being much smaller than rest of the drive