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WilliS

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Registered: 2020-02-25

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Do I need fstab record for ESP partition? [SOLVED]

I'm little confused about my ESP partition. I successfully installed arch. It boots and works nicely. I use GRUB EFI application grubx64.efi in /efi/GRUB/. Grub is installed in /boot on system partition.
My question is whether I need this record in fstab?
UUID=C290-79BD          /efi         vfat          rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro    0 2
If grub doesn't touch grubx64.efi and bootloader in NVRAM see linux kernel file in /boot/ do I need to mount ESP on boot?

Last edited by WilliS (2020-03-07 12:43:20)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Do I need fstab record for ESP partition? [SOLVED]

No you don't, you only need to mount it if you intend to update the GRUB EFI binary. However there's also little harm in keeping it mounted so that's up to you.