On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 04:59:01PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 3:36 PM Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 02:21:04PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > > Once upon a time, Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> said: > > > > I want to reiterate, it's not just about cloud platforms! if we remove > > > > BIOS boot (too early), we also kick Fedora servers, installed on > > > > hardware, out of these data centers. And the reason is not that this > > > > server hardware does not support UEFI, but the management > > > > infrastructure of the data centers. > > > > > > Speaking of servers... one thing I noticed is that a pure-Fedora system > > > only uses about 8M of /boot/efi. Even my dual-boot laptop with Win10 is > > > only using 35M. Is there a reason 256M was chosen for the default UEFI > > > system partition size (from the standard somewhere)? I guess that's > > > what Windows does too (since Win10 was on this laptop first). > > > > It is likely because UEFI specifies FAT32 on harddrives, and the minimum > > size for FAT32 is 256MB. > > That's just for 4KiB logical sectors though. Most everyone still has > 512 byte logical sector size for internal drives. My nvme drive is 512 > byte sectors, came with FAT 32 and 100 MiB EFI system (and reformatted > with Microsoft's own installer the same).
Ah, right. I'd forgotten about 4k sectors. I ran into this limit while trying to reduce the footprint of parted tests, which uses 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 sector sizes so 256MB was as small as I could get. Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
