Hi, Am 13. Januar 2025 10:06:55 MEZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>: >On 13/01/2025 at 08:18, Holger Wansing wrote: >> Am 13. Januar 2025 00:38:50 MEZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg >> <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>: >>> In order to preserve unused existing EFI partitions (which may be used by >>> other OS): >>> - Keep the 'esp' flag on existing EFI partitions when the method is set to >>> "do not use". >>> - Restore the 'esp' flag on former existing EFI partitions when the method >>> is set to "do not use". >>> - Forget about former EFI partitions when committing changes. >> >> It seems to me that the last two points conflict? > >Let me try to clarify. An existing EFI partition is an on-disk ESP. A new EFI >partition is an ESP created by the user or by a recipe and not committed to >disk yet, or an on-disk partition of a different type set to "use as ESP" by >the user. A former EFI partition is an on-disk ESP set to a different type by >the user and not committed to disk yet. > >The first two points apply before pending changes are committed to disk, while >they can still be reverted. The last point applies when the changes are >committed to disk: then it does not matter any more if a partition was >previously an ESP, now it is definitely not an ESP.
Ok, but then would a change from point 2 (restore a esp flag) be thrown away in point 3, in my understanding, or not? Hmm, maybe with "Forget about ..." you don't mean "Do not commit such changings" .... That's how I understood it. Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
