On 2015-09-01 18:47, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 01/09/15 17:21, Goffredo Baroncelli wrote: >> I discovered that bootctl assume as default mount point for the ESP >> partition the /boot directory. Instead it seems to me that the most part >> of distributions prefers /boot/efi. > > For some context, the reasoning for /boot/efi is: > > In some distributions (presumably including the (Fedora-based?) ones > where this feature was developed), /boot is traditionally treated as > mutable and unpackaged, like /var; so the packages include the kernel in > /usr or /lib or something, and copy it into /boot. The cost of this is > one extra copy of the kernel on-disk, which used to be a significant > amount of space, although on modern disks it doesn't really matter.
On the basis of this "Fedora 22 Multiboot Guide" https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/22/pdf/Multiboot_Guide/Fedora-22-Multiboot_Guide-en-US.pdf (see page 18 for example) it seems that the ESP is mounted on /boot/efi I found that only "arch" mounts ESP in /boot; the others (debian, ubuntu, suse) use /boot/efi Here http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ reports that "...The ESP used for the current boot is automatically mounted to /boot,..."; this page was written by Lennart. However most part of the distributions mount the ESP on /boot/efi... [...] -- gpg @keyserver.linux.it: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijackATinwind.it> Key fingerprint BBF5 1610 0B64 DAC6 5F7D 17B2 0EDA 9B37 8B82 E0B5 _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel