On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 9:20 AM Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki >> still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on >> a system whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for >> systems that have /boot on an SSD, ext4 makes more sense due to >> discard support, and for non-SSD it doesn't matter either way. Have I >> missed something? > > AFAIU, UEFI systems need a boot partition, and it has to be VFAT.
Only to use systemd-boot. UEFI needs a VFAT ESP (EFI System Partition). For systemd-boot, the ESP and "/boot" have to be the same because it cannot read other filesystems, unlike grub, refind, and whatever other EFI boot managers/loaders exist.
