Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?
On Tue, 12 May 2020 17:17:29 -0700
"Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> > Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto:
> > > I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is
> > > fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just
> > > opinions.
> > I had the same doubts about a year ago and went with the recommendation
> > of a larger partition, about 500MB... of which only 6% is used.
> > My office laptop with Windows10 has something in the region of 100MB but
> > it is not dualboot.
> > Debian uses about 6MB, MS about 26MB, plus a couple of megs for boot.
> > If space is really tight you might want to stick with 100MB in total.
>
> One thing to keep in mind is that, when the contents are being updated, the
> EFI partition and the /boot partition if you have one, will need space
> for two (or even more) copies of stuff. So don't be too stingy!
Thanks. I hadn't considered the extra space that might be needed during
update/upgrades, etc.
B
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