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nicklan

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Registered: 2021-03-02

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[SOLVED] Changing efi mount point long after install

My machine has the old /boot and /boot/efi mountpoints:

/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)

I'd like to move to having efi just mounted to /boot (and I guess then just not using the old /boot partition). Is it enough to just edit my fstab to only mount nvme0n1p1 to /boot, and not to mount nvme0n1p2 anymore? I assume after that I'd need to remount everything and install the kernel, and microcode packages again? I also have refind installed, and it would be nice if it continued to work, although I do plan to migrate to efistub or systemd-boot, which is what's motivating moving the efi partition.

Anything I'm missing?  Thanks in advance!

Last edited by nicklan (2021-03-09 21:59:23)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing efi mount point long after install

You shouldn't need to reinstall anything.  Just move all the content of /boot/ (except for /boot/efi) to /boot/efi, then edit your fstab.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing efi mount point long after install

The kernel will be moved from the boot partition to the ESP,  if refind is configured with a volume entry for the boot partition that will need to be changed to the ESP.

nicklan

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing efi mount point long after install

Thanks! that seems to have worked fine. Appreciate the help.

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing efi mount point long after install

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