Re: Why so big EFI partition?

To: Albin Otterhäll <Albin@otterhall.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why so big EFI partition?
From: SamuelOPH <samueloph@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 19:05:50 -0300
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Actually, if you wanna use systemd-boot your kernel and initramfs must be stored on the ESP. But anyway 500MB looks like overkill.

Samuel Henrique O. P. [samueloph]
Técnico em Informática - UTFPR [2012].
Estudante de Engenharia de Computação - UTFPR.

2016-03-02 19:01 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll <Albin@otterhall.com>:

On 03/02/2016 07:42 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> There is no ratio. 500 MB is the generally recommended size for the EFI
> system partition even though the Debian GRUB EFI bootloader needs much
> less, and 250 MB for /boot is one of the questionable arbitrary choices
> that the guided mode does for you. If you're not happy with these
> choices feel free to use the manual mode instead.

Why is it generally recommended? Does other distributions store other
things in the EFI partition that Debian doesn't?

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