> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2024 at 9:59 AM
> From: "Joe" <j...@jretrading.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: From SSD to NVME
>
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 13:00:21 +0100
> poc...@homemail.com wrote:
>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2024 at 11:18 PM
> > > From: "Felix Miata" <mrma...@stanis.net>
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, "Timothy M Butterworth"
> > > <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: From SSD to NVME
> > >
> > > Timothy M Butterworth composed on 2024-12-03 20:36 (UTC-0500):
> > >
> > > >> pocket composed on 2024-12-03 12:01 (UTC+0100):
> > > >> > [alarm@alarm ~]$ ls -l /
> > > >> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 25 19:15 bin -> usr/bin
> > > >> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 boot
> > > >> …
> > >
> > > The rest of what the above was clipped from is in:
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/12/msg00120.html
> > >
> > > >> What Debian puts a FAT filesystem on /boot/? Is that a
> > > >> systemd-boot configuration?
> > >
> > > > /boot/efi is a fat partition. It has to be fat so the UEFI can
> > > > read the files. Usually /boot is an EXT partition.
> > >
> > > /boot/efi/ is where the ESP normally goes, not /boot/, at least,
> > > not when using Grub2 EFI, as opposed to one of those newfangled
> > > bootloaders (e.g. systemd-boot) that I have yet to see live in
> > > person. That 'ls -l /' listing is pocket's root directory showing
> > > Dec 31 1969. That means there's a FAT filesystem mounted on /boot/.
> > > He hasn't shown us what if anything is mounted on on /boot/efi/.
> >
> > I don't have a partition to mount at /boot/efi
> > nvme drive with a msdos mbr two partitions one vfat and one ext4
> >
> > Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
> > Disk model: Corsair MP600 CORE MINI
> > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disklabel type: dos
> > Disk identifier: 0xb2c58878
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> > /dev/nvme0n1p1 8192 1056767 1048576 512M c W95 FAT32
> > (LBA) /dev/nvme0n1p2 1056768 1953525167 1952468400 931G 83 Linux
> >
> > >
> > > What I expect to see with Grub2 EFI is what I see here:
> > > # ls -gGd /boot/
> > > dr-xr-xr-x 4 10240 Dec 3 11:57 /boot/ # typical
> > > mountpoint EXT4 mounted # ls -gGd /boot/efi/
> > > drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Dec 31 1969 /boot/efi/ # typical
> > > mountpoint FAT mounted # mount | grep boot
> > > /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat…
> > > #
> >
> > mount
> > /dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
> > /dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/ type vfat
> > (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
> >
> > That is all there is folks just two partitions on a nvme drive
> >
>
> The EFI partition (i.e. partition mounted as /boot/efi or the partition
> containing /boot, which contains /boot/efi) must have some variety of
> FAT filesystem, according to the EFI spec. Windows will normally use
> ntfs and Debian by default ext4, and a FAT partition has no other real
> use now than for EFI. It may be convenient to put the whole of /boot on
> FAT, but Debian will normally leave /boot in the main / partition, and
> just use FAT for /boot/efi.
>
I don't have an efi partition, as shown above MSDOS MBR and two partitions
nothing else
One VFAT partition mounted at /boot.
One ext4 partition mounted at /
