Comment # 11 on bug 1177358 from
(In reply to Nikolai Nikolaevskii from comment #3)
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/
> configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions
> 
> Citation: 
... 
> For Advanced Format 4K Native drives (4-KB-per-sector) drives, the minimum
> size is 260 MB, due to a limitation of the FAT32 file format. The minimum
> partition size of FAT32 drives is calculated as sector size (4KB) x 65527 =
> 256 MB.

Why did we choose a minimum of 256 when the explicit minimum on Windows is not
256, but 260? Were someone with a 4K sector boot disk and 256 ESP wanting to
add Windows to the system, it would require an additional ESP partition
according to the referred to Windows document.


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