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EFI System Partition mountpoint

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EFI System Partition mountpoint

#1 Post by kereberos »

What is the correct mountpoint for a EFI FAT32 System Partition partition? Should it be /boot or /boot/efi or /foo and then bind-mount it over /boot ?

I read somewhere that it should be /boot/efi (with /boot being placed over the root mountpoint / ) but on this archwiki page i read that it should be /boot (or /anywhere and then bind-mount it over /boot )
What advantages give the differences between all options?

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Re: EFI System Partition mountpoint

#2 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Debian expects the EFI system partition to be mounted to /boot/efi

Arch mounts /boot to the ESP so that systemd-boot can work.
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Re: EFI System Partition mountpoint

#3 Post by kereberos »

Thanks.
I am sure Debian uses systemd but systemd-boot sounds somewhat different. I had never heard of it before. Is it the archlinux alternative to GRUB?
Also, if i want to encrypt root, should i create an unencrypted mountpoint for /boot too? For example:

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/boot     (ext4)        is this required? how many MB?
/boot/efi (fat32)       this shall be 256MB
/         (LUKS, ext4)
/home     (LUKS, ext4)
/var      (LUKS, ext4)
or can i keep /boot on the encrypted root?

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Re: EFI System Partition mountpoint

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#5 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

kereberos wrote:I had never heard of it before.
https://www.startpage.com/, perhaps?
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#6 Post by kereberos »

Low quality trolling. lmgtfy.com would have been better for this. but could give a 4/10

And now answer to the questions or GTFO

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#7 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

I'll take door number two please Bob :mrgreen:
kereberos wrote:lmgtfy.com would have been better for this
Don't be silly, I would never link to a site that requires javascript to work :roll:
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