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| From | "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? |
| Date | 2020-05-13 02:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <A5NBf-894-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <A5Lzr-6Tc-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <A5LJ7-6Zm-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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
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