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On 3/21/25 8:41 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:11:40 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> My other usage is Raspberry Pi SD cards which are two partitions in IIRC
>> VFAT and EXT4
> 
> That may be inherited from Debian.  vfat is used for /boot/firmware or /
> boot/efi for UEFI compatibility.
> 
> 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.

   At present, every Linux I've used, the UEFI stuff is
   ALWAYS in a FAT partition. However it's SMALL, not
   a prob.

   Don't love UEFI at all ... but these days it's harder
   and harder to NOT have that partition.