On 03/24/2018 10:31 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Wayne Patton composed on 2018-03-24 17:11 (UTC):
When I installed Leap 42.2 it made /dev/sda1 for /boot/efi 156MB in size. I have triple booted sharing that partition with Tumbleweed, SLES 12 and Leap 42.x. I currently boot Leap 42.3, Leap 15 and Tumbelweed.
When I installed Leap 15 into one of my partitions it complains that the partition for /boot/efi is too small and should be 256MB. I continued the install, and it and the other two os partions boot fine. Do I need to be concerned that it's not that large?
My plan is sometime after Leap 15 is to make the change if needed. Do I really need to change it???
You need not take any action: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084717
Pasting the reply here for those not following the link. But please, keep subsequent replies in the bug report, so they don't get lost in this thread. Pasted text starts here: First of all, you only have one shot to create a big-enough ESP (/boot/efi) partition to be shared by all the operating systems living in the same disk. So YaST prefer to "waste" a couple of hundreds of megabytes rather than annoying users with a bigger problem in the future when they want to install Ubuntu or Windows alongside the openSUSE system and it's already too late to fix the issue in an easy way. That being said, note that for Advanced Format 4K Native drives (4-KiB-per-sector) drives, the size must be at least 256 MiB because that's the minimum partition size of FAT32 drives (calculated as sector size (4KiB) x 65527 = 256 MiB), due to a limitation of the FAT32 file format. Those drives are common enough (more over time) to take them into consideration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format So if we have to choose between wasting 200 MiB (in 2018*) on one hand or causing problems to users with Advanced Format drives and/or to users wanting to install many operating systems on the other hand, he election is clear to YaST. [*] Really, 15 years ago in Europe it was already almost impossible to buy a disk smaller than 10GiB. EOPastedText :-) -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org