Re: Why so big EFI partition?

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 02/03/16 08:42 AM, Albin Otterhäll wrote:
> When doing a guided partition when installing debian, the
> debian-installer creates a EFI (/boot/efi) partition with approximately
> 500MB, and a /boot partition with around 250MB. Why this weird ratio
> between them?
>
> To my knowledge only the bootloader(s) in located on the /boot/efi
> partition, and the kernel images on /boot. Canonical says that 100MiB is
> minimum for Ubuntu's EFI partition, and 200MiB is recommended.
>
> And on a related note: Does debian-installer support *iB units?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Albin
AFAIK if the system doesn't have Windows, you don't need a large EFI 
partition. I also don't think that the partition would be mounted at 
/boot/efi - mine isn't. In fact none of my systems have a mountable EFI 
partition because the partition doesn't contain a file system.

I have an EFI partition on my Jessie system that is only 1M and it works 
fine. If you are dual-booting with Windows you may need a larger one, 
but this isn't a Linux issue.