On Tue, 27 May 2025 22:14:03 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24.05.2025 22:40, Joe wrote: > > Looks like you need to shrink lvm a bit. EFI needs a partition > > formatted to one of the FAT family filesystems, with no additional > > software needed to access it, so no encryption or LVM. The size > > recommendation for Linux is 1GB minimum. It's generally advised to > > keep it near the beginning of large discs. > You have Boot partition and EFI partition mixed up. They are > different things. No, I wasn't considering the /boot (minus /boot/EFI) partition at all. > EFI partition have to be formatted to FAT32, but its safe and > sufficient size could be even 100MB, because only UEFI executable > binaries go there. Yes, that's what MS recommends, but MS notoriously under-specifies various minimum requirements and has done for decades. The Internet generally recommends 100-500MB. There are recommendations for 1GB. The points to consider are that nobody knows what /boot/efi might need to contain in the future, in addition to the current files, and given modern drive sizes, the odd GB here or there is a rounding error. If you reach the point where 900MB less spare space is really becoming an issue, it's time you moved to a bigger drive or added more LVM space. -- Joe
