Hi,
Not so long time ago got a new laptop (Legion 5 Pro if its of any relevance). It has a single SSD (1 TB) and on that there was Windows 11 preinstalled. Initially I installed alongside to that Linux Mint to check some stuff. After some time i decided to move on to Fedora (without dual boot), so downloaded Fedora 41 Workstation. While installing, picked the option to manually adjust partitioning (the ‘advanced GUI one’). There, removed all the partitions so that i got only ‘free space’. Next i created partitions for installation:
- Partition → EFI System → 500 MiB → mount point: /boot/efi
- Partition → ext4 → 1 GiB → mount point: /boot
- BTRFS Volume → 200 GiB → mount point: /
- BTRFS Volume → 300 GiB → mount point: /home (please note that in another, 2nd attempt to reinstall, also tried to use: Partition → 300 GiB → mount point: /home);
At the point 3) (mount point: /) i selected ‘encrypt’, with default settings, just entered the password (my understanding is, that it is enough for encrypting the whole drive in this case ? if it’s not so, please advise how to use full disk encryption in this case); - The remaining disk volume (500 GiB or so) was left as ‘free space’ to use it as a data storage when needed later.
After install, i did a reboot and when I go into system boot menu (that BIOS/UEFI settings) and there i see two entries which look totally the same.
Question(s): Is it expected that way (because of encrypted / partition ?) or i did something wrong ?
P.S. Not very experienced with linux yet, so please provide any details where necessary.
Thank you in advance.