Hi everyone,
After several hours I've installed RemixOS 2.0.402 on my 1 Tb hard drive, I installed it on a 12 Gb partition which appears as 3.7 Gb of storage space in RemixOS, so I resized the partition to 1 Tb (all in FAT32) but RemixOS still diplays 3.7 Gb.
How can I extend the size of it ?
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Cheers.
CMfanuser said:
Hi everyone,
After several hours I've installed RemixOS 2.0.402 on my 1 Tb hard drive, I installed it on a 12 Gb partition which appears as 3.7 Gb of storage space in RemixOS, so I resized the partition to 1 Tb (all in FAT32) but RemixOS still diplays 3.7 Gb.
How can I extend the size of it ?
Cheers.
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Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
Thisu said:
Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
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Great, thank you very much for your help, and please, I've got a BIG problem.
When I use the RemixOS install tool under my Windows-PC to install RemixOS on the hard drive which will go into my Laptop-PC, the tool makes the hard drive bootable from my Windows-PC by adding the RemixOS bootloader with 2 options (Windows or RemixOS) as a dualboot but I don't want this. I just want to install RemixOS on a hard drive which will be the only OS on my Laptop-PC. How can I do this ? I want the hard drive to be bootable by itself because I won't use it on my Windows-PC but on my Laptop-PC. (PS : my Laptop-PC doesn't have any OS, I want it running RemixOS, alone).
CMfanuser said:
Great, thank you very much for your help, and please, I've got a BIG problem.
When I use the RemixOS install tool under my Windows-PC to install RemixOS on the hard drive which will go into my Laptop-PC, the tool makes the hard drive bootable from my Windows-PC by adding the RemixOS bootloader with 2 options (Windows or RemixOS) as a dualboot but I don't want this. I just want to install RemixOS on a hard drive which will be the only OS on my Laptop-PC. How can I do this ? I want the hard drive to be bootable by itself because I won't use it on my Windows-PC but on my Laptop-PC. (PS : my Laptop-PC doesn't have any OS, I want it running RemixOS, alone).
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Since you are using Windows,you don't have much control over the bootloader. Are you on using EFI? If so,try mounting your EFI partition. refer to this http://superuser.com/questions/6628...-windows-8-1-so-that-it-is-readable-and-write
There's a grub.cfg file there in the EFI partition,you'll have to edit it by hand.
Or,use a linux live cd like Ubuntu and you can access the EFI partition of your HDD through it.
Thisu said:
Since you are using Windows,you don't have much control over the bootloader. Are you on using EFI? If so,try mounting your EFI partition. refer to this http://superuser.com/questions/6628...-windows-8-1-so-that-it-is-readable-and-write
There's a grub.cfg file there in the EFI partition,you'll have to edit it by hand.
Or,use a linux live cd like Ubuntu and you can access the EFI partition of your HDD through it.
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There's no EFI partition on my external hard drive, this partition is on my Windows-PC but I want to use the hard drive on Another computer.. but I need a bootloader for it.
CMfanuser said:
There's no EFI partition on my external hard drive, this partition is on my Windows-PC but I want to use the hard drive on Another computer.. but I need a bootloader for it.
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You don't need an EFI/ESP partition just an efi folder
That obviously relates to UEFI systems - for bios it installs grub1 to the mbr.
Thisu said:
Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
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please help me. On step 3 when I type the command cd/mnt/RemixOS
There is the warning: "the directory not found"
Related
I want to be able to copy files >4Gb to my Touchpad. This is so I can watch HD movies on the device.
I already tried adding resizing the media partition and adding an ext3fs partition using "Tailor" (a webOS app). Although this is easy and it worked, I couldn't find any way to have this partition mount at boot time and be seen by my Android apps.
There are a couple of posts out there on the web from people claiming that they "reformated" the shared partition (/media/internal) to ext3fs successfully.
Has anyone here done that, and if so (a) how? and (b) were you able to have it mount and be visible from android apps?
Otherwise does anyone have any suggestions please?
cheers
Paul
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Getting somewhere...
I tried again having found out that the ext3 partition I created in webOS is found at /dev/mapper/store-ext3fs
Under Android - everything below is done in Android
I am able to mount this partition to my fake sd card (I just created a folder there called "ext").
Code:
su
mount /dev/mapper/store-ext3fs /sdcard/ext
I found that copying files by USB doesn't work while my ext3 partition is mounted, which is a pain - would be good to get that fixed. Anyone have any ideas?
I am now testing copying over a >4Gb file to my ext3 partition using ftp client. Will take some time on my crappy wifi, hence the comment about fixing USB.
I found that in order to make the ftp process work, I had to give full permissions to this folder.
Code:
chmod /sdcard/ext
I am a noob, so if anyone can help me with a less insecure set of permissions I would be grateful.
I'll post an update later on.
Nah, didn't work. After a few hours of copying I went to bed, this morning the folder is empty. I'm not sure if there was an error or anything.
My suspicion is that it crapped out when it got to 4Gb because even though the partition is ext3, it is mounted at a mount point on a FAT32 partition.
I realised I can test this more easily and eliminate possible network errors or ftp client instability, I'm running
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat bs=1024 count=51200000
within my /sdcard/ext folder (my mount point), this should create a 5Gb file.
I'm expecting this to fail, again because even though the partition is ext3, it is mounted at a mount point on a FAT32 partition. If anyone can help me to mount the partition some other way so its not mounted in a FAT32 partition, or point to another method to overcome the file size limit, I would be grateful.
thanks
Paul
That worked!
dd-ing a large file worked. I think I got my calculations wrong so when it got to >7Gb I just stopped it.
Now it would be great to get this working such that I can use USB instead of ftp to get my movies across.... Anyone?
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USB transfers not working
Anyone help me identify partition number for my ext3 partition please?
My ext3 partition is all working except when mounted I cannot use USB transfer.
Believe this is because my vold.fstab mounts the first available partition as SD card.
So would like to know correct partition number for SD card and ext3 partition.
I gave up on this in the end. Assured by clearly very clever jcsullins over on the cm touchpad IRC that the partition doesn't get a number and I would not be able to get my USB file transfer working. I also found the available media players (or maybe CM itself at the moment?) unable to cope with my 720P movies.
All is not lost though. I'm having more luck over on webOS using touchplayer and an overclocked kernel.
Thanks to those who tried to help with this!
I was trying to backup the stock rom to the external sd card but does not work. Its like the card has 0 space.i had to do it to the internal sd card.
android-incredible said:
I was trying to backup the stock rom to the external sd card but does not work. Its like the card has 0 space.i had to do it to the internal sd card.
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I had the same issue. I tried otg and that was recognized fine....Not sure why.
I am assuming that your sd card is exFat. It needs to be formatted to Fat32 for twrp to recognize it.
BladeRunner said:
I am assuming that your sd card is exFat. It needs to be formatted to Fat32 for twrp to recognize it.
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thanks, My desktop don't have that option fat32. has exfat and ntfs.
android-incredible said:
thanks, My desktop don't have that option fat32. has exfat and ntfs.
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Right, Windows doesn't format to Fat32 natively. There's a free program you can download that will do it though but I don't remember the name of it atm.
I have a 64gb SD card. I used Aparted from the app store to format it to fat32. Rebooted into TWRP and it allowed me to backup to external SD. The app is free and was very quick on the format
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...arted&pcampaignid=APPU_72c5VMa-JMX2yQT_jYD4CQ
Format with TWRP and to ext3 or 4. But only prob is windows doesn't read those formats. I use *nix so I am fine but Fat32 via another option works just as well. Only now you will have file size limits. Ext doesn't.
edif30 said:
Format with TWRP and to ext3 or 4. But only prob is windows doesn't read those formats. I use *nix so I am fine but Fat32 via another option works just as well. Only now you will have file size limits. Ext doesn't.
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I have a 64gb as card. Could you tell me which settings should I choose?
Thanks.
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That's partition. Dont use that. Wipe the SD card and select ext3 or ext4. I use 4. Just know you will not be able to read that SD card on a windows box.
edif30 said:
That's partition. Dont use that. Wipe the SD card and select ext3 or ext4. I use 4. Just know you will not be able to read that SD card on a windows box.
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Thanks. Yea, someone pointed that out to me in a different topic. I mixed myself up I guess.
Can u backup to internal memory than manually transfer to sd with an explorer?
Quick Boot, from Sirius, on the Play Store is very handy. (A random mention, but I vastly prefer it to access TWRP compared to futzing with the power button)
You can use TWRP to reformat to fat, which is then usable by both TWRP and the system, though you will have a 4GB size limit on a single file.
Back up your external sd card.
Start TWRP
Wipe
Advanced wipe
Check the external_sd box
Repair or change file system
Change file system
Select fat
TWRP will reformat the external sd to fat. Reboot and restore whatever files you had copied off the external sd.
If you use FAT you will not be able to backup a stock image. There is a file size limit. Use Ext.
edif30 said:
If you use FAT you will not be able to backup a stock image. There is a file size limit. Use Ext.
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I was able to create a backup on my Fat32 formatted SD card. The file size limit is 4gb and the size of my backup was 3.8.
BladeRunner said:
I was able to create a backup on my Fat32 formatted SD card. The file size limit is 4gb and the size of my backup was 3.8.
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I will rephrase... Not all backups will be the same size. Case in point mine is 6g. So if the backups will be under 4... FAT is an option.
Have you confirmed that option works with both TWRP and when running the system (sd accessible for read/write)?
markfm said:
Have you confirmed that option works with both TWRP and when running the system (sd accessible for read/write)?
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Which option are you talking about? I can create and restore tibu back ups from my SD card plus my music is stored on my external as well. Note that I have the KK SD card full access exposed module installed.
I'll try ext, too. In the original thread people had tried several options.
Ok I reformatted to fat 32 with a mac computer and now I can back up my stock rom to the external SD card..
edif30 said:
I will rephrase... Not all backups will be the same size. Case in point mine is 6g. So if the backups will be under 4... FAT is an option.
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The TWRP backup functionality chops things into chunks that do work with a fat format. It looks like it divides at about 1.5GB boundaries.
When I did a TWRP backup, onto my TWRP-fat-formatted SD, I see two different system files in the backup folder, system.ext4.win000 (1.49GB) and system.ext4.win001 (618 MB). Similarly I have several data.ext4 files, the largest showing 1.51 GB.
As long as a single file isn't over 4 GB size, TWRP appears to be entirely happy with a fat external SD.
For kicks I might try shoveling a single > 4 GB file into my internal storage, to see if TWRP chops that single file up, though in my own use case that isn`t an issue.
It`s all good, having TWRP is a big relief to me
In this guide I will explain how to install RemixOS on PC with multiboot with any other OS. (Grub needed for multiboot)
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First some points to get clear:
1- Can I use the hole partition as data and not a restricted size data.img? Yes, you can.
2- Can partition be ext4 ? Yes it can and it must. (I've seen people over xda saying you need fat32 for RemixOS. That's not true. RemixOS is android-x86 based and it inherits its ext4 support.
3-Can I make system files editable? Yes, although they will use much more space than when system is compressed.
Let's start: (START UBUNTU OR WHATEVER OS YOU CAN USE TO WRITE GRUB )
1-First use your preferred partition manager to create an ext4 partition where RemixOS will be installed.(8GB or more recommended).
2-Create a folder called "android" in the new created partition.
3- Download latest RemixOS ISO from official page.
4-Decompress ISO contents and copy all to android folder in new partition.
5-Create "data" folder into android so it would look like /android/data.
6- Add new grub entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom (OR WATHEVER FILE YOUR GRUB INSTALLER USE) like this:
Code:
menuentry "Remix-OS" {
set root='(hdx,y)'
linux/android/kernel root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive quiet SRC=android DATA=/data
initrd/android/initrd.img}
PAY ATTENTION IN THE CODE ABOVE - (hdx,y) makes reference to the partition where you are installing RemixOS, Generally it is (hd0,y) where 'y' is the number of the partition
7-Execute on terminal
Code:
sudo update-grub
(OR WATHEVER CODE YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR GRUB )
8-Reboot and boot into RemixOS .
For the ones who want editable system files:
ATTENTION: WE WILL NEED A DEBIAN DISTRO LIKE UBUNTU OR ANY OTHER DISTRO WITH squashfs-tools
1-Move system.sfs from android folder to whatever folder you want (outside RemixOS partition).
2-Open terminal and install squashfs-tools with
Code:
sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools
3-In terminal go to the folder where you put sytem.sfs and execute
Code:
unsquashfs -d system system.sfs
We'll see a new folder is created with a file called system.img inside.
4-Copy system.img to /android folder in RemixOS partition
5-Mount unsquashed system.img:
Code:
sudo mkdir /media/tmp && sudo mount system.img /media/tmp
We now can see system.img was mounted and you can access it through file explorer and edit files aswell.
6-Reboot and enjoy RemixOS with editable system files.
(you can start Ubuntu and edit files mounting system.img)
Going to try it now :fingers-crossed:
i have a little error
so i did like you said with lubuntu on a sd.
used an old eee PC (ASUS Eee PC 904HA) i had around. should work on it i think.
after i did everything i get
Code:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
i used i386 version...
did i fail to set up grub correctly?
thx for any help
Edit: rebooted in live sd and my 40_custom is as default. will try again.
gr44b said:
so i did like you said with lubuntu on a sd.
used an old eee PC (ASUS Eee PC 904HA) i had around. should work on it i think..
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You need to use "sudo" to edit 40_custom...
By SD you mean SD Card?
If you are installing GRUB on an SD Card form the PC, I think you will need to copy /boot/grub folder in the root of your SD Card. I've never done that.. but those are the files Grub needs to work properly and when booting from SD Card I think the root for Grub is the SD Card so you need /boot/grub and all the files in there on your SD Card
If this not work read carefully the second answer here
I have windows and ubuntu with grub in uefi boot, is this tutorial valid with my grub?
languedoc said:
I have windows and ubuntu with grub in uefi boot, is this tutorial valid with my grub?
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I don't have any UEFI compatible PC to test... If you handle to add the entry to your grub it could work. Test and report :crossfingers:
I heard a lot of times that secure boot on uefi usually prevents chain boot...so think on disabling it if you find an error during the test.
install remix os for pc?not sound hdmi tv((( (intel hd4000) all working good by, not sound((((
OTA update working?
Will an OTA update work for a system which has been set up with your method?
remixtester said:
Will an OTA update work for a system which has been set up with your method?
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Guessing not, until out of BETA, when hopefully a more user friendly install method will be issued
remixtester said:
Will an OTA update work for a system which has been set up with your method?
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Actually OTA works with system.img
Hello everyone. I really need help with this problem and would be very grateful if you helped me.
I accidentally took out my MicroSd card from my phone, when I tried to put it back in it wouldn't read it so I went ahead and plugged it to the computer, when I try to access it it says "The disk in drive H is not formatted. Do you want to format it no?" I always press no.
Here's what it says in the Disk Management
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1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
Pugnaq said:
Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
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That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Skyhuppa said:
That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
Pugnaq said:
But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
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If you have,
1. digital camera insert it to check storage.
2. Old phone that can read 32gb microsd can repair it.
I use these native methods to recover my staff.
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hi my windows disk has the following partitions
a 600MB (used 40.72MB) it says system partition EFI
my main partition that has the files
and a 655MB (used 566.17MB) it says recovery partiton
are the 600 and the 655 needed both?
what do they do?
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Maybe this will help in understanding, little reading.
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What is Windows 11 partition scheme: MBR or GPT? How to know Windows 11 is MBR or GPT? Does Windows 11 requires MBR or GPT? In this post, you can find the answer easily.
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akaloith said:
hi my windows disk has the following partitions
a 600MB (used 40.72MB) it says system partition EFI
my main partition that has the files
and a 655MB (used 566.17MB) it says recovery partiton
are the 600 and the 655 needed both?
what do they do?
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The first 600MB is your EFI partition and you absolutely cannot delete it or else your Windows will not be able to boot. The last partition is used to store data for Windows recovery. While it is not a must be highly recommended.
Matrix1999 said:
The first 600MB is your EFI partition and you absolutely cannot delete it or else your Windows will not be able to boot. The last partition is used to store data for Windows recovery. While it is not a must be highly recommended.
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because the size is almost the same of the 2 partitions I thought i had 2 recovery ones and wanted to delete one of them
the system partition EFI shouldnt it be smaller?
I think it got bigger when i cloned the disk (now using the cloned one)
You can resize it to 300 but I wouldnt recommend anything smaller than that.
my original disk I had had 2 file partitions c,d (which i merged to one before the clone) AND
one 100MB, 16MB, 658MB
the 658 was the recovery i guess
the 100 was the system? that became 600 on the clone ?
and the 16 ? vanished on the clone
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my original disk I had had 2 file partitions c,d (which i merged to one before the clone) AND
one 100MB, 16MB, 658MB
the 658 was the recovery i guess
the 100 was the system? that became 600 on the clone ?
and the 16 ? vanished on the clone
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Like mentioned, be careful with the partitions. I suggest doing some reading, on the required size needed per system. Just a thought.
Yeah not gonna mess with the size etc
Just wondering why my previous system was 100 and got 600
And what did the 16mb do? I guess nothing cause it was not cloned in the new disk
When you clone the drives, there is a chance where the software "scaled" the partition size, and in this case increased your EFI partition from 100 to 600. The 658 partition is definitely recovery because it is a NTFS partition.
Also it is good to know that EFI partition is always FAT32. The only thing I am not sure is the 16MB but I guess there is nothing to worry about since it is no longer there and only 16MB.. LOL
Microsoft reserved partition (MSR)
In Windows 10, the size of the MSR is 16 MB.
this got lost while cloning, still works though