Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 28.05.2025 00:11, Joe wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2025 22:14:03 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" 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

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
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 les

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Joe
On Tue, 27 May 2025 22:14:03 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" 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 LV

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
ce is 59672736 sectors (28.5 GiB) Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size   Code  Name    1    2048  206847   100.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition    2  206848  239615   16.0 MiB    0C01 Microsoft reserved ...    3  239616   334387660   159.3 GiB  

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-27 Thread Tommy Berglund
lör 2025-05-24 klockan 17:59 + skrev Andy Smith: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 03:31:03PM +0200, Tommy Berglund wrote: > > Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already > > running Debian 12? > > > So, you're going to have to

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread David Christensen
On 5/24/25 06:31, Tommy Berglund wrote: Hi, Translated by Google from Swedish Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already running Debian 12? How do I do it? (parted) print devices /dev/sda (2000GB) /dev/sdb (2000GB) /dev/mapper/vg-data (1888GB) /dev/mapper/vg-www (4295MB

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 03:31:03PM +0200, Tommy Berglund wrote: > Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already > running Debian 12? The other reply you got covers making an ESP partition, but your main problem is going to be that you also need to install grub in EF

Re: EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread Joe
On Sat, 24 May 2025 15:31:03 +0200 Tommy Berglund wrote: > Hi, > Translated by Google from Swedish > > Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already > running Debian 12? > How do I do it? > > (parted) print devices > /dev/sda (2000GB) > /dev

EFI system partition

2025-05-24 Thread Tommy Berglund
Hi, Translated by Google from Swedish Is it possible to add an EFI system partition to a server already running Debian 12? How do I do it? (parted) print devices /dev/sda (2000GB) /dev/sdb (2000GB) /dev/mapper/vg-data (1888GB) /dev/mapper/vg-www (4295MB) /dev/mapper/vg-vmail (10,7GB) /dev/mapper

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-21 08:40, Andy Smith wrote: I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. how do you choose to provide redundancy for your ESP any why did you make that choice? I MBR and single 2.5" SSD's for system drives. For desktops and servers, I moun

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 05:44:30PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > [ Adding CC to the debian-efi list too... ] > > Hey Andy! > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > >More of my adventures in EFI land. > > > >Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Adding CC to the debian-efi list too... ] Hey Andy! Andy Smith wrote: > >More of my adventures in EFI land. > >Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used >to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for >everything. It seems that the

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Andy Smith wrote: > c) Manually sync the ESP to another partition which can be used if >the first device dies. >An identical partition can be created on the second device and an >arrangement made to copy the real ESP to the secondary partition >every time grub-install would be ru

Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, More of my adventures in EFI land. Machines that boot by EFI need an EFI System Partition. I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. It seems that the designers of EFI didn't think about that one. https://www.tinkerfairy.net/ef