I recently purchased a new box on which I wiped the drive and installed
Linux using efi. My efi partition is sda1, with Linux distributions on
sda[2-3] and sda4 as swap. However, if I don't have Windows, is there
an advantage of using efi? If I understand, I can enable legacy BIOS
and lose the efi partition. In that case I could have Linux
distributions on sda[1-3]. I believe efi has effectively no partition
limitations, so I could have efi on sda1, Linux distributions on
sda[2-3] and sda5 as swap. But I don't see the advantage of efi as four
partitions is enough for me.
Also, while I'll probably keep my current setup, I realize the danger of
not trying new things. I'd like to attempt dual booting with Windows
but am confused. The default partitions were:
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free space 1 MB
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/dev/sda1 ntfs 1073 MB
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/dev/sda2 efi 104 MB
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/dev/sda3 ntfs 134 MB
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/dev/sda4 ntfs 489243 MB
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/dev/sda5 ntfs 9550 MB
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free space 0 MB
I understand sda2 and assume sda4 is the main Windows partition. But
what were sda3 and sda5? Can I delete them? Can I resize sda4 during
my Linux installation?
I've not booted to Windows since 2002 and probably still won't after
this experiment. But I'd be interested in Linux users' input.