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[–] lloram239@feddit.de 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Some distributions (e.g. NixOS) store their kernels on the EFI partition, going small will bite you on those. 1GB is a good size. The Windows default of 100MB is only enough to store two kernels.

Edit: This might actually be systemd-boot specific.

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[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 2 points 3 years ago

This is true. I used a 1gb boot partition on my Nixos install and every time I update it I need to delete all the old kernels/initrd and sometimes I even delete the one that's currently running.

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[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

I use NixOS, and read my comment again. /boot/efi is only for GRUB. /boot is where the actual kernels reside, and it isn't on the EFI partition.

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