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

[Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com>]

Hello folks,

Thanks kindly -- and my apologies for picking this up after a while;
fell sick here...

A few questions:

-- If I have multiple drives, do I modify the script to have multiple
efi2, efi3, ..., efiX ?

-- it seems that the script above privileges /boot/efi over /boot/efi2
-- in this case, if /boot/efi becomes corrupted, won't this just copy
the errors to /boot/efi2 and thus destroy it as well, on the next run?

Cheers!

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 2:12 PM Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Florent Rougon wrote:
>
> > Le 20/09/2024, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> a écrit:
> >
> >> Because the script will abort after the mount fails.
> >>
> >> root@dirac:~# cat test.sh
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >>
> >> set -e
> >>
> >> mount /boot/efi2
> >>
> >> echo "do important stuff"
> >>
> >> root@dirac:~# ./test.sh
> >> mount: /boot/efi2: /dev/sda2 already mounted on /boot/efi2.
> >>        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
> >>
> >>
> >> Note that do important stuff is never reached.
> >
> > That's interesting because my system doesn't behave the same. I had of
> > course checked, before writing my first message, that 'mount /boot/efi2'
> > returns exit status 0 even when /boot/efi2 is already mounted. With your
> > script (called foo.sh here), here is what I get:
> >
> > # mount | grep efi2
> > /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi2 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
> > # /tmp/foo.sh
> > do important stuff
> > # mount | grep efi2
> > /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi2 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
> > /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi2 type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
> > #
> >
> > Every invocation adds a new, duplicate entry in the output of 'mount'.
> >
> > This is Debian sid amd64; /usr/bin/mount is from 'mount' package version
> > 2.40.2-8.
> >
>
> That's very interesting and looks like it's probably a kernel change.
>
> Tim.



-- 
Boyan Penkov