Fedora Cloud Looks To Switch /boot To Btrfs Subvolume (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] swizzle9144 3 points 1 day ago

Yup—it's on its own ext4 partition

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Wait, so they have the GRUB EFI executable on the standard Fat32 partition and then it reads the kernel images from another partition? I didn't know that was possible

[-] swizzle9144 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Mhmm, that's correct! GRUB ships with its own FS drivers, which enable that, AFAIK

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