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What are the best practices to partition a linux system with? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is true. I used a 1gb boot partition on my Nixos install and every time I update it I need to delete all the old kernels/initrd and sometimes I even delete the one that's currently running.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah that's probably because systemd-boot only supports FAT

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*FAT32

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I doubt it doesn't support FAT16