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Does first partition has to be FAT32 in EFI system? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Greetings,

I wanted to know if the first partition has to be FAT32 and should be mounted at /efi . Gentoo and Arch tell us to always have first partition of type FAT32 however they mount it in different location. I am confused can anyone elaborate please?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

The efi partition can generally be mounted anywhere, distros may expect it in a specific location.

The efi partition must be fat formatted.

I'm not sure if partition order matters, I think the main thing is setting the boot flag for the efi partition in the partition table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition