I have an existing installation with GPT.
The only partition I want to keep is the /home partition.
But the installer of Manjaro 20.1.1 does not recognize my existing installation:
there is an GPT partition table and the installer does not find one.
Here is the output of blkid:
/dev/sda1: UUID="93c47859-68ad-46c4-9a13-7439a70b0358" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="78bdd922-74b2-466e-b270-69d51ad9b39c"
/dev/sda2: UUID="4166cc85-6703-4989-b31d-ef9a6b4290ea" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="66770570-7adb-4f43-b437-c37695a47883"
/dev/sda3: UUID="9b9ca8b8-6696-4472-a851-c68ce547e6e1" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="9ce93511-f88a-480a-87af-7f88ab949946"
/dev/sda4: UUID="9f37810a-7288-47e3-9bbe-7a864bd7b290" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8781885c-ec12-472d-a054-a4acd7da87ed"
/dev/sda5: UUID="fb1f07f7-5f31-423f-b4e8-eb52e4c3d85f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="1e78de83-67d9-40b0-849c-86c6f7e6bea3"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="9AE4-62B5" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="3f60adf0-95e2-472b-b632-6c181d651a9d"
/dev/sdb3: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="345EE6D75EE69142" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="a628a108-992e-4f77-966d-b07a2069480a"
/dev/sdb4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="A47254077253DC9C" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="9e9a6525-4e99-455c-9187-bd2d1d8ede05"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="43166bcb-eb7f-4f68-8360-3bd6c383f3c1" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="39d49eee-ed39-44b3-bc1a-6672c2ef8eea"
/dev/sdb2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="22c70eb2-bde7-4f94-bd2d-5f86195bbf58"
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An output of parted --list would be more beneficial than blkid…
Here is the output of parted --list:
Modell: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Festplatte /dev/sda: 512GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags:
Nummer Anfang Ende Größe Dateisystem Name Flags
1 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB ext4
2 1075MB 35,4GB 34,4GB linux-swap(v1) swap
3 35,4GB 143GB 107GB ext4
4 143GB 358GB 215GB ext4
5 358GB 512GB 155GB ext4
Modell: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Festplatte /dev/sdb: 512GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags:
Nummer Anfang Ende Größe Dateisystem Name Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
2 106MB 123MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
3 123MB 512GB 511GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
4 512GB 512GB 546MB ntfs versteckt, diag
Modell: ATA WDC WD4003FZEX-0 (scsi)
Festplatte /dev/sdc: 4001GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/4096B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags:
Nummer Anfang Ende Größe Dateisystem Name Flags
1 1049kB 4001GB 4001GB ext4
So basically you already have a Manajaro install on /dev/sda with GPT and want to reinstall Manjaro, but the installer doesn’t recognize the existing install automatically?
If my understanding is correct:
If incorrect:
I have an existing installation and I want to keep /home.
The last installation was in UEFI and GPT.
Screenshot follows.
I know, what I error was: missing installation in UEFI mode.
I had to select UEFI partition on the Manjaro USB to boot from.
So alles Okay denn? So everything hunky-dory now?
Now, the installation works.
Thanks!
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