On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:20:34 -0400
fsmithred via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> 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.

This is a very welcome piece of information. Thank you.