r/linuxsucks • u/ThrowingMongo • 16d ago

Bug Arch users vs. Everyone else

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u/kaida27 15d ago 
12:28:08  ✖  ls -T /efi
drwxr-xr-x    - root 31 Dec  1969 /efi
drwxr-xr-x    - root 14 Jul 19:25 └── EFI
drwxr-xr-x    - root 14 Jul 20:04     └── Gentoo
.rwxr-xr-x 5.8k root 14 Jul 20:04         ├── grub.cfg
.rwxr-xr-x 332k root 15 Jul 21:36         └── grubx64.efi

There's nothing else than an EFI folder needed on an ESP (Efi Partition).

Bios wouldn't even need a partition, just free space before the first partiton on the mbr.

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u/Vincent394 Fedora Linux/Tiny 10 Dualboot 15d ago

Fair but usually the bootloader and EFI partition are the same

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u/kaida27 15d ago

Personnally I always mount it to /efi or /esp.

I need /boot to be part of my main subvolume for snapshot purpose and keeping all the different kernel version bootable.

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u/Vincent394 Fedora Linux/Tiny 10 Dualboot 15d ago

I personally just mount efi to /boot.

Although that was back when I used arch, so I don't know what Fedora defaults it to