On Feb 26, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 15:32 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > >>> It is kind of a significant convenience, though, and I agree Josh kinda >>> underplayed it. Losing the ability to install alongside full-disk >>> Windows installations without asking the user to do some pre-flight work >>> themselves would be a significant loss. >> >> The question was about XFS's lack of ability to shrink. Not Windows. >> In that context, and in the context Pete is talking about, XFS being >> able to shrink really isn't a factor. Windows is already installed, >> and you'll be shrinking that filesystem to make room for a Fedora >> install, not the other way around. > > yeah, I noticed the context switch in my follow-up email, sorry. I do > think the 'user wants to install something else alongside Fedora' case > is worth caring about at least a little bit, but having custom part > available is probably good enough. Most users don't know XFS isn't shrinkable. Most of the target market for the easy path is likely used to ext3/4, NTFS, and HFS+ all of which are shrinkable. And yet a minority would choose a shrinkable file system if they knew the default was not shrinkable. So I opine it's not a factor in whether XFS should be the default file system. But it is a factor in helping the user make the best choice for them, in advance, rather than them having an oh crap moment later. Docs should consider adding it as a virtual tooltip in the quick install guide. And maybe it's possible to have a real tooltip in the installer. Chris Murphy -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
