Joe composed on 2025-05-27 20:11 (UTC+0100):
> 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.
The future is already here. Up until recently, more than 100M on disks with 512b
sectors resulted in lots of wasted space even with several distros installed in
addition to Windows. All my UEFI installations are multi-multiboot, with 12 to
25
or more installations, yet with my 320M ESPs, not even close to 20% of space has
been consumed. With 4k sectors, the minimum was 260M for disks of 16T or more.
Now with alternatives to Grub such as systemd-boot, even 1G might be too
conservative, as distros are putting there kernels and initrds there on
systemd-boot installations. If sticking to Grub, 500M is nearly complete waste.
As with UEFI it is of no consequence where on disk the ESP is located, should
need
for more ESP space arise, a new larger one should be able to be carved out
anywhere to replace the original, and the original ignored or removed.
I'm sticking with Grub, as I shudder to think of my kernels and initrds being
hosted on a FAT filesystem.
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