On 9/12/25 12:55, Peter via Dng wrote:
> Hi,
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> Is a few kB or MB of free space preceding the EFI System Part harmful?
> Is it useful or beneficial?
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> Thx,             ... P.

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It's not harmful. The efi does not have to be right at the beginning of
the disk and does not need to be the first partition.

I like to make a small partition in front of the esp for a bios grub
partition in case I ever want or need to boot the gpt disk in legacy mode
instead of uefi. It needs to be at least 1 MB and not have a filesystem on
it. I generally give it 2 MB. Partition type is ef02 in gdisk.

fsmithred