Re: From SSD to NVME

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Hi folks,

as promised I send you my experiences with cloning to NVME.

So, today I got my new notebook. As I never used UEFI, I disabled UEFI in BIOS 
(my first mistake!), then cloned everything to the new drive.

Firts reboot worked well, no problems. But then I realized, that if you want 
NVME mode, you MUST use native UEFI in BIOS settings. 

However, doing so, neither Debian nor Windows will boot. Of course: There is 
no EFI partition on my harddrive, as I never needed one (still).

Now I am hasseling with the drive, as I want NVME-mode of course, because it 
is faster. And of course, I do not want to reinstall everything!

I saw some documentations, how to get EFI on the drive, but it looks, you need 
a seperate partition with FAT to get EFI on, right?

However, I saw also the possibility to get EFI on my seperate /boot partition.

What can I do? I would like to keep the existing partitions.  However, I could 
shrink them. At the moment, my drive looks at this:

primary partition Windows-boot  ntfs
primary partition Windows ntfs
primary partition /boot /dev/sda3 ext4
extended partition /dev/sda4 
logical partition /dev/sda5 swap
logical partition /dev/sda6 / ext4
logical partition /dev/sda7 encrypted home
logical partition /dev/sda8 encrypted usr
logical partition /dev/sda9 encrypted var
logical partition /dev/sda10 encrypted data

So I could shrinken some partitions and create a new logical one.

Other option would be, delete "swap" partition and make a new "EFI" partition.

What do you think, might be the best way? 

Some better ideas?

Thanks for reading this.

Best regards

Hans