Casey Bralla via plug on 24 Apr 2022 09:52:01 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Partitioning nvme "drive"

I think the 1 MByte partition is the EFI partition.    The UEFI system
seems simple enough, but it always confused me with it's disk requirements.

On 4/24/22 12:28, Eric Lucas via plug wrote:
> I have a new 500 GB nvme drive and I am installing Kubuntu 22.04.
> When it comes to partitioning I want a boot partition and a root
> partition.
> The partition program leaves a 1MB "free space" at the beginning so it
> looks like:
>
> - nvme0n1
> -- free space   1MB
> -- nvme0n1p1  ext4  /boot  biosgrub 199 MB
> -- nvme0n1p2  ext4 /          ext4 499906 MB
>
> Why the fixed 1 MB free space up front?
> Will this be a problem with booting?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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