While fiddling around with the Cockpit storage interface, I noticed it was showing an EFI system partition it had itself previously created as "vfat filesystem". The partition is, at this time, not a part of any identifiable OS install (because I've been screwing around with the partitioning tool a lot without actually completing an install). But it is still identifiable as an EFI system partition because these have a unique partition type. `fdisk` correctly shows its type as "EFI System".
Created attachment 2016556 [details] screenshot of the issue (affected partition is vda1)
"Technically", Cockpit is not wrong: the EFI system partition indeed has a vfat filesystem on it, and the thing that makes it EFI is its partition type. But I agree that this is not helpful and Cockpit should list the EFI system partition as "EFI System partition". Cockpit might even start complaining if you a partition has the EFI type but not a vfat filesystem, or a different mount point than /boot/efi. This is even worse for bios boot partitions: they don't even have a filesystem on them and are listed as "Unformatted data". Thanks for pointing this out! I have bumped the priority for fixing this.
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/pull/20010
FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005 (cockpit-311-1.fc38) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005
FEDORA-2024-be44af3059 (cockpit-311-1.fc39) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 39. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-be44af3059
FEDORA-2024-be44af3059 has been pushed to the Fedora 39 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-be44af3059` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-be44af3059 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2024-be44af3059 (cockpit-311-1.fc39) has been pushed to the Fedora 39 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2024-7b0bc52005 (cockpit-311-1.fc38) has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.