Package: partman-efi Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The partman-efi package refers to the EFI System Partition (ESP) as an "EFI boot partition." The latter name is non-standard; AFAIK, it's used *only* in partman-efi and tools derived from it, such as Ubuntu's ubiquity. It's therefore potentially confusing to users, who may wonder how (or even if) the "EFI boot partition" relates to the ESP. Unfortunately, this problem is pretty widespread. The EFI standards documents all use the term "EFI System Partition" or "UEFI System Partition." Although the acronym "ESP" is in common use, it doesn't appear in the EFI spec. GParted and parted identify an ESP as having its "boot flag" set, which is a phenomenal fail on a user interface level -- but that's not the point of this bug report. My own GPT fdisk (gdisk) uses the term "EFI System" (with "partition" being implicit). Users often refer to the "EFI partition" -- see for instance https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI. As somebody who communicates with users in forums, I find that there's a lot of confusion about the ESP because of the number of unique names that are being used to refer to the same thing. Hence this bug report: If Ubiquity simply changes "EFI boot partition" to "EFI System Partition," one source of confusion and frustration will be eliminated. Note that I've also filed a bug report (#1283493) against Ubuntu's ubiquity on this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140222221542.10169.44509.report...@vbdeb7.rodsbooks.com
