>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:37 PM Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote:
>>> You didn't cut a line up there, did you? Is your efi partition
formatted
>>> FAT32?
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 2:36 AM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean, but yes my efi partition is formatted FAT32
>> and is flagged as esp. That partition is 50MB, and 5.86MB is used.
>> Thank you
50MB might outdated and too small -- I have variously read 200MB and
500MB for current recommended ESP partition size; especially for
multi-boot situations.
On 2020-03-09 11:40, kaye n wrote:
> Also, does it matter that my efi partition is at the right-most part
of the
> hdd (when looking at it in GParted)?
> Thank you!
On 2020-03-09 11:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I think yes, it matters. Historicly fat needs to end not later that about
> 4Gb from the beginning of the disk. There is now an exfat, but I think
> M$ patents are holding up its linux acceptance. Generally its moot as
> most images to install linux, overwrite the disks file systems with an
> ext4 that just works. So it basicly is not an argument when the u-sd
> says its exfat, and trace of it is gone by the dd-ing of a linux install
> image to that 64GB u-sd tpo it.
I had thought one of the reasons for GPT is to solve that limitation of
MBR, but...
In any case, putting the ESP at the end is unconventional. I would put
my partitions in order boot, ESP, swap, and root, with empty space at
the end (for over-provisioning and to facilitate imaging to
different-sized devices).
I still think you should wipe the partition tables and let whichever
Debian Installer you are using partition the drive as it likes.
David
