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Gparted Live on uefi machines

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gadget42:
does it still do this if it is /copied/ to the 2nd/3rd/4th/etc fat partition?

PDP-8:
Good question - I've never tried that.

Although for me, when I make usb drives, they are task-oriented, and dedicated, so I don't use highly multi-partitioned schemes.

About the only thing I do, is that IF I make a Porteus drive from the windows environment, is that once bootstrapped, I'll use the included gparted to shrink the original single fat-32 partition, and create an ext4 (or sometimes reiserfs) with the new space to hold my data to avoid those limitations of fat32.  So just 2 partitions is usually all I ever need.

However, for some coming from the windows environment, a huge fat32 may not be an issue if their needs are simply using a compressed porteussave.dat file.  (aka mydata.tgz kind of thing)

For Gparted Live, it is a dedicated utility stick to me and not an operating environment, although I guess some could use it that way.  Thus I don't care if it is a huge fat32 because it only has one or two tasks that I ask from it.  If I wanted to make it a working environment, I'd do much the same thing with shrinking and repartitioning of itself.

Here's the kicker!  I couldn't boot Gparted Live on my uefi-only machines with just the ISO!  So initially I just slammed the iso onto Ventoy, which worked.  But man, iso's are starting to pi** me off. :)

But there HAD to be a better way to avoid the 3rd-party loader baggage.  And there it was:  I read the gparted-live docs more carefully and noticed the zip file option.  Lo and behold, it was just like Porteus!  BLAM - up and running bootstrapped by itself with no 3rd-party front end needed for uefi-only.  And, based on the Porteus docs, I tried using it without any special exe or sh file afterwards, which is only needed for bios machines.

But good question - I'll have to test that as a goof because it's not really my style of ops, but might be useful for some others to know / test and report back!

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