file system reommendations for SSD...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante
> <kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Welcome to Arch Linux!
> >
> > I would stay with ext4, but I really would prefer to have different
> > partitions (/boot, /home, /, ..).
> 
> Actually I do have a question about /boot.  in the arch beginner's
> guide it says,
> ----
> In case you have a UEFI motherboard, mount the EFI System Partition at
> your preferred mountpoint (/boot used for example):
> 
> # mkdir -p /mnt/boot
> # mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot
> -----
> 
> Does that mean that the EFI system partition and /boot are the same
> thing on modern (GPT) disks?  This is my first gpt system so I've
> never seen this before.

Well GPT disks can be used without EFI, in which case a BIOS boot
partition is used instead of the EFI system partition, or for systems
that aren't PCs, different choices are made for where to boot from.

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