[GTALUG] growing an EFI System Partition (ESP)

[Aurelian Melinte]

On 07/11/2023 12:20, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> 5. Make a new, larger FAT filesystem, filling the partition: "sudo
> mkfs.vfat X" where X is the device name of the ESP partition. On my
> system, it was /dev/nvme0n1p1 but yours might well be different This
> will wipe the old FAT filesystem and make an empty new one that fills
> the partition.

I would add a note about the flags for the partition: boot & esp (as
reported by gparted). Some BIOS-es might check the flags and refuse to
boot from it if not flagged.

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