On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:55 PM Rich Mingin (PLUG) via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
(Resending to not just Casey, sorry.)Sorry, he’s not partitioning GPT. There would be a larger FAT32 partition, type EF00 if he was. It does not show up as free space or reserved space like the MBR does.___________________________________________________________________________On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 12:52 PM Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: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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