▲ 91 ▼ Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits? (odysee.com) submitted 2 years ago by prl@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Isn't EFI a separate partition? Different from /boot? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* They can be the same partition, they are for different purposes though. EFI holds the EFI binaries as the name implies, while /boot holds the initrd, kernel, and the bootloader config files. If they are the same partition, /boot needs to be formatted as FAT32 and have EFI as a subdirectory. Otherwise they can be separate partitions, either way the partition that contains the EFI directory needs to be formatted as FAT32. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* They can be the same partition, they are for different purposes though. EFI holds the EFI binaries as the name implies, while /boot holds the initrd, kernel, and the bootloader config files. If they are the same partition, /boot needs to be formatted as FAT32 and have EFI as a subdirectory. Otherwise they can be separate partitions, either way the partition that contains the EFI directory needs to be formatted as FAT32. permalink fedilink source parent