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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2021 01:01:18 -0800
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        "nwhitehorn@freebsd.org" <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: e77cf2a4ab32 - main - Restore /boot/efi to mtree.
Message-ID:  <A63777FD-23F5-4B06-91D6-F1D137E26D2A@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <656E3D05-11B6-437B-B171-4894811A70CB@yahoo.com>
References:  <656E3D05-11B6-437B-B171-4894811A70CB@yahoo.com>

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On 2021-Mar-5, at 22:05, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>=20
> Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at FreeBSD.org wrote on
> Sat Mar 6 02:01:30 UTC 2021 :
>=20
>>    Restore /boot/efi to mtree.
>>=20
>>    Instead of whether /boot/efi exists, which it now always does, =
including
>>    on systems that don't and can't use EFI, use whether /boot/efi is
>>    present in fstab to signal to the installer that it is a valid ESP =
and
>>    should be configured. This has essentially the same semantics, but =
allows
>>    /boot/efi to be created unconditionally.
>>=20
>=20
> Sounds like the documentation about /etc/fstab content
> should indicate the special/reserved /boot/efi usage
> context, be that comments in initial default files or
> whatever.
>=20
> I wonder if anyone puts / at the end in an fstab: /boot/efi/=20
>=20

I tried using a trailing / in /etc/fstab and it is
one place were the notational variation is not
equivalent: I had to remove it.


=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
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