Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

[Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it>]

Update:older laptop had 100MB, the current one apparently has more than 500MB but I am not sure whether that holds the recovery image as well or not.

Anyhow, the caveat for multiple copies is valid for /boot, where kernels live. AFAIK, /boot/EFI is fairly constant in space utilization... I have only that as a separate partition, though, the rest of /boot lives in the main partition.

Il giorno mer 13 mag 2020 alle ore 02:36 Rick Thomas <rick.thomas@pobox.com> ha scritto:

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!

Stay well, stay safe!
Rick