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Created December 4, 2024 21:24
Increasing the EFI partition in a Win 11 / Fedora 40 dual-boot scenario

Increasing the EFI partition in a Win 11 / Fedora 40 dual-boot scenario

A guide on how I did come to a proper working Win 11 / Fedora 40 dual boot setup with a right-sized EFI partition. Hope that helps :)

Windows and Linux dual-boot setup

In most Windows/Linux dual-boot setups it is very likely you had first installed Win 11 (or any other Windows version) on your machine. Typically you'll then shrink down the existing Windows partition from the right end side to create some unpartitioned space for the Linux installation. This could easily be done with Windows built-in harddisk manager tool. Then install Linux in the free space and use GRUB2 as the bootloader.

I previously did this procedure again on a new PC having Win 11 preinstalled. Made up some space as described above and installed Fedora 40 with GRUB2. Works like a charm.