A partitioning layout in YaST2 that looks thoroughly disorganized. Installed are 4 Windows 11 partitions, Mint EFI, Mint boot, Mint root encrypted, OpenSUSE EFI, swap, OpenSUSE boot, OpenSUSE root encrypted, and a data partition.
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • You don't need multiple EFI system partitions! That's why Mint and OpenSUSE don't show up in each other's boot menu (or at least that's the first step, depending on your bootloader). The intention with the ESP is you put all EFI executables for dual-booting (and triple- and beyond) in there.
  • Swap partition is fine anywhere. But as an aside, you can also just use a swapfile. Makes it easy to change the size dynamically. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap#Swap_file
  • /dev/nvme0n1p6 I'd wonder why that's needed. /boot on /dev/nvme0n1p10 too, that's not strictly necessary.

None are game-breaking! You can just note these down for next time you have the itch to tinker.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You do want windows EFI separate as it occasionally likes to turf the Linux efi entries. With opensuse it will probe foreign OS and add chainloader entries to point to the other EFI bootloaders. You set the OpenSUSE to load first and choose mint or windows from the grub menu

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