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Hi, I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot
from a file anywhere on the disk. So far so good, that still works but.... do I still need that partition when I create an EFI System Partition (ESP) to boot using UEFI? The automatic disk partitioning created a 500M EFI partition that only has 5M files on it, on my 300M boot partition are another 49M files.
If I had not created that /boot partition would those files be in /boot folder on the / (root) partition or would /boot then be on the EFI partition? Do I still need that /boot partition now that the ESP has the boot flag set? Do I still want it? The current layout of my 1TB SSD on which I still have some free space inside my LVM vgroup. root@linbobo:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1.6G 8.9M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/mapper/linbobo--vg-root 23G 815M 21G 4% / tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2 237M 49M 176M 22% /boot /dev/mapper/linbobo--vg-var 9.2G 188M 8.5G 3% /var /dev/mapper/linbobo--vg-tmp 1.8G 5.6M 1.7G 1% /tmp /dev/sda1 511M 5.1M 506M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/linbobo--vg-home 500G 73M 474G 1% /home tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/0 tmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /run/user/1000 I read https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI but that does not answer my questions above. Bonno Bloksma |