Le 30/07/2018 à 17:01, Matthew dyer via arch-general a écrit :

Hi all,

Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here.

It depends. Some bootloader require to use the same partition for boot and efi, some don’t or even require the opposite for some setup (like full-disk encryption including /boot using grub). That being said, I don’t think there are interesting setups (at least none came to mind) which would /require/ both a boot and efi partitions as well as the boot partition to be independent from the / one. So only one extra partition for both or only for EFI should be enough. You can have more information about this by reading bootloaders wiki pages. Regards, Bruno