Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?
On Wed 13 May 2020 at 11:37:31 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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?
Were they ever? I don't see how the hardware/firmware would read them
from some foreign filesystem. OTOH with EFI, it knows the filesystem
will be FAT.
Cheers,
David.
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