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   Daniel65 to bad sector   
   Re: EFI/UEFI position on disk or other m   
   08 Feb 24 19:38:36   
   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   bad sector wrote on 8/2/24 9:05 am:   
   > On 2/7/24 15:37, Marco Moock wrote:   
   >> On 07.02.2024 um 07:53 Uhr bad sector wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Can it be anywhere on the disk or is there an imperative for it   
   >>> to be at the bottom/beginning?   
   >>   
   >> Please describe more precisely what you mean. The EFI system   
   >> partition can be anywhere.   
   >   
   > I want to slice my laptop ssd so that grub will not list any   
   > partition 10 or 11 before 2. If I can put EFI anywhere then I can use   
   > 1-9 for OS'es and place all the others above. Otherwise (and I just   
   > did this but can easily back out) I start OS partitions with 11 with   
   > the also-rans 1-10 (like EFI, swap, some datas).   
      
   Might it help if you called the partitions '01', '02', '03', etc, or   
   would the leading Zero's be ignored??   
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   Daniel   
      
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