http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084717 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084717#c4 --- Comment #4 from Ancor Gonzalez Sosa <ancor@suse.com> --- (In reply to Jan Engelhardt from comment #3)
So why is the recommendation 256 MB? Is this a recommendation from a different vendor which SUSE chose to pick up, and if so, who was that vendor?
It's not like SUSE puts kernels onto the ESP, so that space seems wasted, at present.
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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.