[HowTo] Protect kernels with btrfs when /boot is vfat

[andreas85]

P.S. This is a follow Up to

[HowTo] portable manjaro USB with XFCE, btrfs (part1)

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ part 2 Create a USB stick (at least 16GB) as a portable manjaro system that can be used on different computers.

background

Usually, a manjaro deployed on a CD or USB stick is a ‘live-manjaro’ (read-only). This is used to use manjaro ‘live’ without installation. Sometimes also to be able to repair a damaged system that no longer boots. The status of the stick becomes obsolete over time. It can be partially updated (but not the kernel), but the updates…