I recently purchased a new SATA SSD specifically to install Fedora, and I already have Windows on another disk. I'm wondering if it's better to create a new EFI partition during the installation or if I should share the existing EFI partition with Windows to avoid potential issues. What do you think?
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Both options can work, but there's some trade-offs. Windows usually creates a small 100MB EFI System Partition (ESP), but the current recommendation is around 1GiB for better performance. If you share a single, appropriately-sized EFI partition, that could simplify things. However, if you want flexibility and to avoid potential bootloader issues, creating two separate ESPs might be the way to go.
I heard that Windows updates can mess up the GRUB bootloader. Do both methods face the same risk?