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Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

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On Wed, 13 May 2020 00:37:52 +0200
Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> 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.

The 500MB recommendation is to assure FAT32 is used when formatting or
so I've read.

If you have a very large disk, 500MB is insignificant, but if I can use
less like 100MB or 50MB on a basic one OS/one kernel system with only a
32GB eMMC that's a lot space not wasted.

> 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.

Thanks for the recommendation.

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Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 00:30 +0200
  Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2020-05-13 00:40 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-05-13 02:40 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-13 07:40 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
          Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-13 21:10 +0200
          Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-05-13 21:20 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2020-05-13 09:20 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:40 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-05-13 13:50 +0200
      Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-05-14 18:30 +0200
        Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2020-05-14 21:00 +0200
    Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2020-05-13 20:30 +0200
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