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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: F2FS On USB Sticks?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:37:52 +0000
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On 22/03/2025 01:42, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.
> 
> Not from Debian, but for the same reason that like UEFI, the RPi
> firmware only has drivers for FAT (FAT32, or FAT16 works too,
> I'm not sure if any new ones support exFAT).
> 
> To run in a tmpfs, I set up Linux on a FAT partition on an SD
> card. No need for a separate EXT* partition if you're not mounting
> any as / anyway.
> 
Then what are you mounting as / ?
I don't understand Linux needs a root filesystem that accepts linux 
permissions, VFAT does not

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