When i first installed arch i created a partitioning layout that looked like this:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=D66F-A58E /boot/efi vfat fmask=0137,dmask=0027 0 2
UUID=07ccabe5-b432-4553-ad89-8647a6f8f2d1 /boot ext4 noatime 0 2
UUID=757b39c2-8e41-4682-bc42-7aae66cea511 / ext4 noatime 0 1
UUID=f484854e-255e-4eed-bf61-97413ee0e2c8 /home btrfs noatime,compress=zstd 0 0
KDE partition manager visualization
I don’t know if this is a mess as much as I think it is.
SYSTEM contains efi
disk contains data, nothing important
everything else is self explanatory
Now, as far as i can assess: the efi partition doesn’t look good as far as mounting points are concerned.
/boot contains grub, and /boot/efi contains the efi partition. Arch wiki discourages this, though i don’t understand why. Maybe for clarity?
I also don’t like that my efi partition is so small (300Mb) but to change it, i should move it to the end of my disk, as there is another partition right after.
If that is not a good idea i can shrink the partition, i have no important data there so failure to correctly move things is not a problem.
Everything else is disposed like that because the disk partition contained windows before, so grub is on the first free block that was available at the time.
I was wondering, is it worth the effort to delete the disk partition to move grub, root and home backwards and expand the latter two? What kind of problems can this operation bring to?
I like fiddling with my system, but i understand this can lead to problems, so I do that as little as possible. What the advantages can be for all the operations i described? Are they worth the effort? Can i learn something from them?