git: e77cf2a4ab32 - main - Restore /boot/efi to mtree.

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 6 06:05:33 UTC 2021


Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org wrote on
Sat Mar 6 02:01:30 UTC 2021 :

>     Restore /boot/efi to mtree.
>     
>     Instead of whether /boot/efi exists, which it now always does, including
>     on systems that don't and can't use EFI, use whether /boot/efi is
>     present in fstab to signal to the installer that it is a valid ESP and
>     should be configured. This has essentially the same semantics, but allows
>     /boot/efi to be created unconditionally.
> 

Sounds like the documentation about /etc/fstab content
should indicate the special/reserved /boot/efi usage
context, be that comments in initial default files or
whatever.

I wonder if anyone puts / at the end in an fstab: /boot/efi/ 

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