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

Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 6 09:01:27 UTC 2021



On 2021-Mar-5, at 22:05, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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/ 
> 

I tried using a trailing / in /etc/fstab and it is
one place were the notational variation is not
equivalent: I had to remove it.


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