On Friday 24 September 2010 18:52:30 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > It seems btrfs is really worth a try after so many positive feedbacks. > Any ideas how can I format / with latest btrfs? I've the archiso on my > pen drive which was released months ago, I guess it doesn't have the > latest btrfs-progs? > What's the method then? Create a PenArch? long time back I did this. # modprobe btrfs # mkfs -t btrfs <device> # mount -t btrfs <device> <mountpoint> but this was not thr. the installer but for an extra disk. and it was not for / either. btrfs progs git repo does not get updated very frequently but it remains useful for what it is. -- Regards Shridhar