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Help with EFI Partition
To upgrade my OC from 0.6.4 to 0.7.3, I created a USB with OC 0.7.3 and can successfully boot with it. When I went to copy the EFI folder to the EFI partition on the startup drive (originally OC 0.6.4), the EFI partition shows no files and there are only 64 bytes available. I tried showing invisibles just in case some random flag was set. Nothing. I tried copying the new EFI folder from my USB to the EFI partition on my startup drive. The Finder reports not enough disk space. I tried emptying the trash with the EFI mounted just in case somehow the files were moved. No change. Get Info shows 206.5 MB used. The EFI partition is Fat32.
I'm not sure if this is related to Carbon Copy Cloner snapshots. I found that the snapshot function used about 1.4TB of my SSD disk space so I deleted the back up snapshots. The EFI partition was not mounted at the time, so I'm not certain that this is related.
Can I safely reformat the EFI partition to FAT32 without messing up the ability of the BIOS to see it? Is there another possible solution?
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
To upgrade my OC from 0.6.4 to 0.7.3, I created a USB with OC 0.7.3 and can successfully boot with it. When I went to copy the EFI folder to the EFI partition on the startup drive (originally OC 0.6.4), the EFI partition shows no files and there are only 64 bytes available. I tried showing invisibles just in case some random flag was set. Nothing. I tried copying the new EFI folder from my USB to the EFI partition on my startup drive. The Finder reports not enough disk space. I tried emptying the trash with the EFI mounted just in case somehow the files were moved. No change. Get Info shows 206.5 MB used. The EFI partition is Fat32.
I'm not sure if this is related to Carbon Copy Cloner snapshots. I found that the snapshot function used about 1.4TB of my SSD disk space so I deleted the back up snapshots. The EFI partition was not mounted at the time, so I'm not certain that this is related.
Can I safely reformat the EFI partition to FAT32 without messing up the ability of the BIOS to see it? Is there another possible solution?
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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