<term><filename>/boot</filename></term>
<listitem><para>The boot partition used for bringing up the
system. On EFI systems, this is possibly the EFI System
- Partition, also see
+ Partition (ESP), also see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
This directory is usually strictly local to the host, and
should be considered read-only, except when a new kernel or
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>/efi/</filename></term>
+ <listitem><para>If the boot partition <filename>/boot/</filename> is maintained separately from the EFI System
+ Partition (ESP), the latter is mounted here. Tools that need to operate on the EFI system partition should look
+ for it at this mount point first, and fall back to <filename>/boot/</filename> — if the former doesn't qualify
+ (for example if it is not a mount point or does not have the correct file system type
+ <constant>MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC</constant>).</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><filename>/etc</filename></term>
<listitem><para>System-specific configuration. This directory
may or may not be read-only. Frequently, this directory is