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From: Alexis Praga <alexis.praga@proton.me>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:34:54 +0000	[thread overview]
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Hi Vit,

I have a dual boot with a 100Mb EFI partition. It works fine, except there isn’t enough place for both old and new kernels for upgrading. So I moved the old kernel from /boot into a safe directory before upgrading.
Maybe not the best strategy but I didn’t dare resize it.

Alexis


On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 at 17:10, Vít Smolík <vit.smolik2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow Gentooers,
> 

> I want to dual-boot Gentoo and M$ Windows on my computer, but windows only created a 100MB EFI partition. Is it necessary to resize it so my boot files will fit? If so - how to resize it so I don't mess up my Windows EFI files?
> 

> --
> May the Force be with you,
> Vít Smolík.
> 

> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-03 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-03 15:10 [gentoo-user] Resizing boot partition while dual-booting Vít Smolík
2024-04-03 15:34 ` Alexis Praga [this message]
2024-04-03 15:37   ` Vít Smolík
2024-04-03 16:21     ` Waldo Lemmer
2024-04-05 11:30       ` Vít Smolík
2024-04-03 16:20 ` Michael

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