Name "EFI boot partition" is non-standard
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-efi (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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partman-efi (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubiquity refers to the EFI System Partition (ESP) as an "EFI boot partition." The latter name is non-standard; AFAIK, it's used *only* in ubiquity. It's therefore potentially confusing to users, who may wonder how (or even if) the "EFI boot partition" relates to the ESP.
Unfortunately, this problem is pretty widespread. The EFI standards document all use the term "EFI System Partition" or "UEFI System Partition." Although the acronym "ESP" is in common use, it doesn't appear in the EFI spec. GParted and parted identify an ESP as having its "boot flag" set, which is a phenomenal fail on a user interface level -- but that's not the point of this bug report. My own GPT fdisk (gdisk) uses the term "EFI System" (with "partition" being implicit). Users often refer to the "EFI partition" -- see for instance https:/
As somebody who communicates with users in forums, I find that there's a lot of confusion about the ESP because of the number of unique names that are being used to refer to the same thing. Hence this bug report: If Ubiquity simply changes "EFI boot partition" to "EFI System Partition," one source of confusion and frustration will be eliminated.
Related branches
Changed in partman-efi (Debian): | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
Changed in partman-efi (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in partman-efi (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in partman-efi (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in partman-efi (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
The strings come from debian / partman-efi (see below). Most of our translations come from Debian, and it would reduce amount of translations we have if we diverge from debian on this one. All references are attached below. Can you please open a bug report in debian against partman-efi package with proposed consistent naming for all of these?
Git repository at https:/ /alioth. debian. org/anonscm/ git/d-i/ partman- efi.git anonscm. debian. org/gitweb/ ?p=d-i/ partman- efi.git; a=blob; f=debian/ partman- efi.templates; h=e48c99779aaed c39adba9a885e06 f8e25924a618; hb=HEAD
Source of all templates: http://
Template: partman- target/ arch_help/ ia64
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: In order to start your new system, the firmware on your Itanium system loads the boot loader from its private EFI partition on the hard disk. The boot loader then loads the operating system from that same partition. An EFI partition has a FAT16 file system formatted on it and the bootable flag set. Most installations place the EFI partition on the first primary partition of the same hard disk that holds the root file system.
Template: partman- efi/text/ efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI boot partition
Template: partman-efi/no_efi
Type: boolean
# :sl5:
_Description: Go back to the menu and resume partitioning?
No EFI partition was found.
Template: partman/ method_ long/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI boot partition
Template: partman/ method_ short/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
# short variant of 'EFI boot partition'
# Up to 10 character positions
_Description: EFIboot
#Template: partman/ filesystem_ long/efi
#Type: text
#_Description: EFI boot partition (FAT16)
Template: partman/ filesystem_ short/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI-fat16
Template: partman- efi/too_ small_efi
Type: error
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI partition too small
EFI boot partitions on this architecture cannot be created with a size less
than 35 MB. Please make the EFI boot partition larger.