On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 09:43:57PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote: > > (2) The same thing you're trying to do but with LVM instead of a GPT table > > I don't need any LVM functionality and would consider it a little bit overkill > for just dividing available space into two partitions. I completely disagree. As another poster said in their response, LVM is really the canonical/supported/more flexible way to do this. Even on systems where I don't need encryption, I generally use LVM to divide up the space instead of traditional partitions. > > (3) a swap file on your Btrfs volume itself > > That's (currently) not possible, see the link you posted. Gah. Sorry. You are correct. Should have read my own link all the way through before sharing it. I usually use good ole ext4. > By the way, please try to add line breaks at about 75 characters, see [0]. > > [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Mailing_lists Ah, got it. Haven't posted to this list much, but noted for this and future posts :) Cheers, Jeremy
