Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Where you get bad results is with, e.g. a pre-existing legacy OS like > Windows XP, where it's not aligned and any subsequent partition is > also not aligned. In that case, even a Btrfs volume wouldn't be > aligned. I dont want to care at all, I dont want to know if to use fdisk is ok or do I have to use sfdisk or another tool etc. I dont want 1980 dos partion tables... not dos 15.0 aka windows. > Well it's certainly exceptionally f'n complicated in relation to the > benefits we get. But whatever, that ship has sailed. We'll just have > to see how it all plays out, but for now UEFI and Secure Boot are the > way of the present, not just the future. Benefits? I dont see any. > No I mean you create a new partition and format it ext4. I'm not sure > how you have sda only formatted Btrfs without other partitions unless > you have another drive attached, because UEFI requires an EFI system > partition; Its called legacy boot I think. I dont even know if my 2011 Thinkpad x220 has UEFI. $ LANG=xx sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x1b1cf5cb > so minimum to boot Linux on UEFI you need two partitions if > you have one drive. And I want to be able to make with some basic tools and a chroot my system bootable, not 50 funny partitons what I would never be able to remember. > For Btrfs you need three partitions because Btrfs > doesn't support swapfiles. The officially supported layout for Btrfs > on UEFI is: EFI System partition, /boot on ext4, Btrfs with root and > home subvols mounted at / and /home respectively, and swap. That's > four partitions. the officially supported by whom? Redhat? I dont care if grub supports taht I am sold, if its doable better I do it better. To swap, I dont use it at the moment, makes no sense on a ssd anyway, because it would overwrite the same few bits again and again, ok maybe the controller can fix it, but I dont want to, and I dont want to use several GB not usable on the expensive ssd drives. I dont use a dos partition table just for swap that get lowest priority and I tell the os than anyway that it should not use it, I have 8gb ram I dont have crashes or anything so I dont care. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
