Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?
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!
Also Firmware/BIOS update are often put onto there nowadays to be
installed on next reboot.
Grüße,
Sven.
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