You’re only partially correct. /boot
doesn’t have to also be your EFI partition. In fact, most distros by default will separate the two, with the EFI partition mounted at /boot/efi
and /boot
being a separate ext4
based partition. My suggestion is that, if you’re running BTRFS, you should merge /boot
and /
as one partition. You’re still free to have a FAT32-based EFI mounted at /boot/efi
or better yet /efi
.
I use systemd-boot and my mount point is /efi. /efi/EFI/ is where my bootloaders live.
If I rollback to an old enough snapshot, I have to reinstall my kernels from a chroot. It’d be cool if I could get around that.