What is this tiny fat32 partition?
I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a laptop. When I opened Gparted I saw this little partition and do not know what it is (see image). Gparted also has a warning about it:
Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
package. The following list of software packages is required for fat32
file system support: dosfstools, mtools.
fdisk has it as:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
What is this partition this may be a supid question, why is it there and do I need it? I have never noticed such a partition before.
boot grub2 partitioning gparted fat32
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
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I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a laptop. When I opened Gparted I saw this little partition and do not know what it is (see image). Gparted also has a warning about it:
Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
package. The following list of software packages is required for fat32
file system support: dosfstools, mtools.
fdisk has it as:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
What is this partition this may be a supid question, why is it there and do I need it? I have never noticed such a partition before.
boot grub2 partitioning gparted fat32
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago
add a comment |
I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a laptop. When I opened Gparted I saw this little partition and do not know what it is (see image). Gparted also has a warning about it:
Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
package. The following list of software packages is required for fat32
file system support: dosfstools, mtools.
fdisk has it as:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
What is this partition this may be a supid question, why is it there and do I need it? I have never noticed such a partition before.
boot grub2 partitioning gparted fat32
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a laptop. When I opened Gparted I saw this little partition and do not know what it is (see image). Gparted also has a warning about it:
Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some
operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software
package. The following list of software packages is required for fat32
file system support: dosfstools, mtools.
fdisk has it as:
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
What is this partition this may be a supid question, why is it there and do I need it? I have never noticed such a partition before.
boot grub2 partitioning gparted fat32
boot grub2 partitioning gparted fat32
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
asked 10 hours ago
ChristianChristian
4311519
4311519
This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago
add a comment |
This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago
This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
1
1
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago
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This is created to boot from bios a gpt disk
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
1
Possible duplicate of ''EFI boot partition'' and ''biosgrub'' partition
– Pilot6
10 hours ago
The bios_grub partition has to be unformatted and 1 or 2MB, and the ESP - efi system partition needs to be 100MB to 500MB and FAT32. So not sure what your partition is.
– oldfred
9 hours ago
I still wonder why gparted sees this partition on this install of Ubuntu? I have never seen it listed in gparted before on any install. I do have a 515 MB /efi partition also.
– Christian
9 hours ago