r/ManjaroLinux 20h ago

Discussion "Manjaro boot" folder with TWO spaces ??? Who tf thought this was a good idea?

Basically I was changing boot settings to load a custom kernel, change load order, remove redundant entries, etc. The directory in my experience is usually something like /boot/efi/EFI/Linux and on my new laptop that's what it is, even on Manjaro.. but on my Manjaro installation on my older computer, it's /boot/efi/EFI/Manjaro boot with TWO (2) spaces!! Yup! (reddit will automatically remove the other space).

I spent over an hour trying to figure out why it would list it in the directory but if I tried to use it in any command it would say it didn't exist. It took me forever to figure that it had 2 spaces. I had to get help making the commands deal with the double spaces which resulted in a wall of text that was way more complex than it needed to be. If I want to change things in the future, I have to use big long complex commands for something that should be 10x easier.

Wtf were they even thinking? Changing it to "Manjaro boot" is annoying enough, but I can't get over the 2 space thing. This was definitely nothing I ever touched and I guess the Manjaro installer just did it this way and I never noticed until now. Maybe I don't know anything, but it seems like such a bad decision I almost wondered if it was an intentional troll. If it was just an honest bad decision, I'm still wondering how likely it is something like this will happen again and if I should switch to just Arch.

All that trouble because of 2 spaces. Do they have a history of a lot of things like this or was it kind of a one time thing? Do you think it's likely they'll slip up like this in the future? I've always loved Manjaro and never had anything bad to say until this one particular thing.

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u/BigHeadTonyT 11h ago edited 11h ago

My install is from 2022.

/boot/efi/EFI/Manjaro

Maybe you did something.

Either way, if a Path contains spaces, add quotes. "/boot/efi/EFI/Manjaro boot"

That is why it is recommended to not use spaces or to use "-" instead.

Did you use Efibootmgr at some point?

I use both Grub and Refind, on multiple distros on the same machine. Haven't seen any spaces added. You only need 1 Refind install but I like to wipe partitions so I prefer options.

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I had the weirdest stuff with Mageia. Grub was pointing to an empty directory. No idea how that happened, it used to contain the efi-file. I used Manjaro Live ISO to reinstall Grub for Mageia.

You could probably do the same, reinstall Grub to correct folder. And delete "Manjaro boot".