Vincent Lefevre composed on 2025-09-18 17:22 (UTC+0200): > On 2025-09-18 10:31:07 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> Related, see >> <https://wiki.debian.orgUEFI#EFI_System_Partition_.28ESP.29_recommended_size>. > Isn't this /boot/efi? FYI, only 8% of 512 MB is used here. > The real issue is with the /boot partition. When I installed the > machine 2 years ago, the size recommended by Debian was... 25-50 MB!!! > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076582#22 and > the subsequent messages. 25-50MB would have been the /boot/ partition size recommendation around 30 years ago. For an ESP, I don't think I've ever seen a recommendation of less than 100MB. Some bootloaders newer than Grub2 are dubiously designed to load kernels & initrds from the (FAT!?!?!!!! — no symlinks possible!) ESP, leading to vastly larger ESP size recommendations. I created this one 7 years ago: # df -h | grep boot /dev/sda1 320M 21M 299M 7% /boot/efi # At that time, ESP minimum was 100M, unless using 4k sectors on a boot disk larger than 16T, in which case it was 260M. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
