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Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions



On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:

> Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit :
>
>> If I had not created that /boot partition would those files be in
>> /boot folder on the / (root) partition or would /boot then be on the
>> EFI partition?
>
> On the root partition. Some new boot specification mounts the EFI
> partition on /boot

Citation needed, which specification is that?

> but Debian does not follow it (yet) and still
> mounts the EFI partition on /boot/efi.

There are good reasons for not mounting the EFI system partition on
/boot, the most important one is that FAT filesystems do not support
files with multiple hard links, a feature that is crucial for dpkg.

Cheers,
       Sven


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