Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?

On 2025-03-22 14:39, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 22/03/2025 08:38, c186282 wrote:

On 3/21/25 8:41 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:11:40 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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My other usage is Raspberry Pi SD cards which are two partitions in IIRC
VFAT and EXT4

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That may be inherited from Debian.  vfat is used for /boot/firmware or /
boot/efi for UEFI compatibility.
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fwiw when it's mounted the Pico 2 shows as  vfat.  I assume the Pico does
also but the two I have hooked up are running so don't show as a mount.

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   At present, every Linux I've used, the UEFI stuff is
   ALWAYS in a FAT partition. However it's SMALL, not
   a prob.
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   Don't love UEFI at all ... but these days it's harder
   and harder to NOT have that partition.

Sad but true. I am sure its all frightfully necessary, but for home use you just want to boot the bloody computer, not have to go through all that rigmarole.

At home, many people boot multiple operating systems from the same disk; UEFI has made this easier.
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Cheers, Carlos.