Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?
On Wed, 13 May 2020 07:38:00 +0200
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> 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.
Aren't such updates stored still in /boot? Or has that changed with
efi?
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