Public bug reported: 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://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI. 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. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283493 Title: Name "EFI boot partition" is non-standard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1283493/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
