file system reommendations for SSD...

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante
>> 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.

I should have said "my first EFI system"  -- anyway, I am rather
confused about whether I need a separate /boot partition in additoin
to the EFI system partition -- that will be espeially important if I'm
going to be encrypting the whole disk as jamon suggests.
>
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists