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What are the best practices to partition a linux system with? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

I prefer a very small EFI partition mounted at /boot/efi, that way the kernels and initrds sit at /boot alongside the rest ot the files (though if you also want encryption you need to add your encryption keys to initrd so you don't have to enter the password twice)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Some distributions (e.g. NixOS) store their kernels on the EFI partition, going small will bite you on those. 1GB is a good size. The Windows default of 100MB is only enough to store two kernels.

    Edit: This might actually be systemd-boot specific.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I use NixOS, and read my comment again. /boot/efi is only for GRUB. /boot is where the actual kernels reside, and it isn't on the EFI partition.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Might actually be systemd-boot thing, not a NixOS specific thing, either way, this is where my kernels are:

    /boot/EFI/nixos/vnmrdbd7a5rg6482d6p8zxc57xf2nxqb-linux-6.1.44-bzImage.efi

    /boot is straight up the EFI partition, there is no separate /boot partition.

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