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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:20 AM Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki |
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>> still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on |
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>> a system whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for |
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>> systems that have /boot on an SSD, ext4 makes more sense due to |
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>> discard support, and for non-SSD it doesn't matter either way. Have I |
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>> missed something? |
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> AFAIU, UEFI systems need a boot partition, and it has to be VFAT. |
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Only to use systemd-boot. |
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UEFI needs a VFAT ESP (EFI System Partition). For systemd-boot, the |
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ESP and "/boot" have to be the same because it cannot read other |
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filesystems, unlike grub, refind, and whatever other EFI boot |
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managers/loaders exist. |
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