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orbituary

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Registered: 2024-05-29

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] New Installation: Surface Pro 5 - Extra partition markers

I've done a good amount of searching, but because DDG and Google and nearly everything else is absurdly muddy, I only get false returns.

When listing my partitions, I get what I would expect from this machine:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 - ...
/dev/nvme0n1p2 - ...
etc., etc.

I am creating partitions on nvme0n1p3. I edit it in fdisk and list the partitions and get:
/dev/nvme0n1p3p1
/dev/nvme0n1p3p2
etc.

Note the extra p1 and p2 after the initial p3.

Everything edits fine, I'm able to write to it fine. The issue comes when I attempt to do a mkfs since those devices don't actually exist in /dev.

If I list the partition directly, I can see sub partitions - /dev/nvme0n1p3p1 ... 4G Linux Swap & ...p3p2, 232G Linux Filesystem.

Is this normal for NVME drives on Arch? Is it unique to Surfaces? (I doubt that)

I've successfully had Ubuntu on this machine before, but meh.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Last edited by orbituary (2024-05-29 16:47:49)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,459

Re: [SOLVED] New Installation: Surface Pro 5 - Extra partition markers

I am creating partitions on nvme0n1p3.

That's the problem. You don't partition the partition, you partition the disk (or namespace on nvme).

orbituary

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Registered: 2024-05-29

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] New Installation: Surface Pro 5 - Extra partition markers

I am creating partitions on nvme0n1p3.

That's the problem. You don't partition the partition, you partition the disk (or namespace on nvme).

That did it. Thanks.

Last edited by orbituary (2024-05-29 16:30:51)