Hello, On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 10:09:53AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12024-01-26): > > The "firmware may write to it" thing was raised as a concern by a > > few people,but always a theoretical one from what I could see. > > Now that I think a little more, this concern is not only unconfirmed, > it is rather absurd. The firmware would never write in parts of the > drive that might contain data.
I suppose my concern with that is that a firmware developer might feel justified in poking about in the ESP, which they might consider is there "for them". I have seen quite a few first hand reports of motherboard firmware that writes empty GPT when it sees a drive with no GPT, which I had previously considered unthinkable, so I do worry about trusting in the firmware developers. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
