Sand Fox (Posts about fat32)https://sandfox.me/tags/fat32.xml2024-03-25T17:50:29ZAnton SmirnovNikolaResizing small EFI partitionhttps://sandfox.me/misc/efi-fat32-parted.html2023-04-17T15:46:00+03:002023-04-17T15:46:00+03:00Anton Smirnov<div><p>It started with the firmware failing to update because the EFI partition was low on free space.
(Dell, why do you need 70 MB on the EFI while also making it as small as 150 MB at the same time?)
Well, resizing the partition is the obvious solution except it ended in a wonderful error message:</p>
<div class="code"><pre class="code text"><a id="rest_code_e87eed8cc1b9478782d128cf933cdcad-1" name="rest_code_e87eed8cc1b9478782d128cf933cdcad-1" href="https://sandfox.me/misc/efi-fat32-parted.html#rest_code_e87eed8cc1b9478782d128cf933cdcad-1"></a>GNU parted cannot resize this partition to this size. We're working on it!
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<p>(spoiler: <a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649324#c7">they're not</a>)</p>
<p>In my case the GPT partition was resized, just the filesystem was not grown, I only needed to reformat it.</p>
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