How To Install efifs on Fedora 34

efifs is Free software EFI/UEFI standalone file system drivers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install efifs on Fedora 34.

What is `efifs`

Free software EFI/UEFI standalone file system drivers, based on the GRUB 2.0 read-only drivers exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, F2FS (experimental), HFS and HFS+ (Mac OS, including the compression support), ISO9660, JFS (Journaled FileSystem), nilfs2, NTFS (including compression support), ReiserFS, SFS (Amiga Smart FileSystem), UDF, UFS/FFS, UFS2/FFS2, XFS, ZFS and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install efifs on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install efifs.

Install efifs on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install efifs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install efifs

Install efifs on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install efifs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install efifs

How To Uninstall efifs on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the efifs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove efifs

efifs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/boot/efi/EFI/efifs
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/affs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/afs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/bfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/btrfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/cbfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/cpio.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/cpio_be.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/exfat.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/ext2.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/f2fs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/fat.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/hfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/hfsplus.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/iso9660.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/jfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix2.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix2_be.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix3.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix3_be.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/minix_be.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/newc.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/nilfs2.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/ntfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/odc.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/procfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/reiserfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/romfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/sfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/squash4.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/tar.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/udf.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/ufs1.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/ufs1_be.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/ufs2.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/xfs.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/efifs/zfs.efi
/usr/share/doc/efifs
/usr/share/doc/efifs/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/efifs/README.md
/usr/share/doc/efifs/efifs-enable.sh
/usr/share/licenses/efifs
/usr/share/licenses/efifs/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/efifs/LICENSE

References

efifs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install efifs on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.