Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 19/09/2024, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> a ?crit:
>
> > I don't think the answer, on Debian, has changed since I asked the
> > same question in 2020:
> >
> >     https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/11/msg00455.html
>
> There is a script at [1] to install as, e.g.,
> /etc/grub.d/90_copy_to_boot_efi2, so that it is automatically run every
> time grub updates its configuration file. I believe the script is fine,
> except I would do
>
>  mount /boot/efi2
>
> rather than
>
>  mount /boot/efi2 || :
>
> Maybe the intent is for the script not to return a non-zero exit status
> when /boot/efi2 can't be mounted, however in this case I certainly don't
> want the rsync command to be run.

Haven't looked at the script but assuming it's run set -e, then your
suggestion will fail if it's already mounted.

Best would be to check that, and unmount again only if the script
mounted.

Tim.