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860lacov

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Registered: 2020-05-02

Posts: 497

What is correct ESP mountpoint for systemd-boot (encrypted hard drive)

On my laptop I have configuration:
ssd
ESP mounted as /boot
root with btrfs subvolumes mounted as /

root partition is Luks encrypted.

I would like to do similar scheme on another PC.
Before partitioning I wanted to check for changes in Arch wiki.
There is an article:
Systemd-boot#Installation

Throughout, esp will denote the ESP mountpoint, e.g. /efi or /boot. This assumes that you have chrooted to the system's mount point.

I think that by the time I've installed my current system It wasn't possible to use /efi because unencrypted ESP partition had to be mounted to /boot. I may be wrong of course.

So. Can I mount ESP to /efi and leave /boot on encrypted partition?

jonno2002

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Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 848

Re: What is correct ESP mountpoint for systemd-boot (encrypted hard drive)

no /boot cannot be encrypted if using systemd-boot, so your better off just having /boot as your efi partition

you can encrypt boot using grub but theres really no point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … ion_(GRUB)