On 22/07/26 09:34am, Vasile Vilvoiu via arch-general wrote: > Hello! > > On my latest install I forgot to mount the boot partition during the > installation process, which prompted me to come back on a few of the steps > after setting up the root filesystem. > > Everything works great (with systemd-boot) but I just remembered one thing I > missed was adding an entry in fstab for /boot. However, it does seem that > systemd does mount _something_ automatically: > > $ mount | grep boot > systemd-1 on /boot type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=50,pgrp=1,timeout=120,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10794) > > and that _something_ seems to be the same as the boot partition: > > $ sudo ls -al /boot > total 58408 > drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. > drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' > -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img > -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img > -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader > -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux > > $ sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt > > $ sudo ls -al /mnt > total 58408 > drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. > drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' > -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img > -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img > -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader > -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux > > > I have trouble finding the documentation of this behavior and I'd like to > know if it can be relied upon or I should add an entry manually. > > -- > Best regards, > Vasile Vilvoiu Hi, I'm not sure about the automatic behaviour either but I tend to think you should probably do this manually. It shouldn't cause any problems, and it could help avert problems if this automatic behaviour turns out not to be reliable.
