On 04/12/2012 06:59 PM, David Lehman wrote: > On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >> On 04/12/2012 06:41 AM, David Lehman wrote: >>> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 11:08 +0530, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone >>>>> confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work? >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error "you have not created a >>>> bootloader stage1 target device. This can happen if there is not enough space on your >>>> harddrive for your installation" >>>> >>>> Really? There is plenty of space on the disk. >>>> >>>> Screenshot of the text install error --> >>>> http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/f17-btrfs-install.png >>>> >>>> Any hints? >>> >>> Here's a hint: try this instead of the clearpart and part commands you >>> used below: >>> >>> clearpart --all --initlabel >>> autopart --type=btrfs >> >> Thanks David, that resolved it. True, I was not paying attention to the partition layout. >> >> ##################################################################### >> [root@foobar ~]# df -hT >> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> rootfs rootfs 16G 818M 13G 6% / >> devtmpfs devtmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /dev >> tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /dev/shm >> tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 724K 1002M 1% /run >> /dev/sda4 btrfs 16G 818M 13G 6% / >> tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup >> tmpfs tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /media >> /dev/sda4 btrfs 16G 818M 13G 6% /home >> /dev/sda2 ext4 497M 48M 425M 11% /boot >> ##################################################################### >> [root@foobar ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release ; arch >> Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) >> x86_64 >> [root@foobar ~]# >> ##################################################################### >> >> Answering my own earlier question, so yes, /boot still needs ext4. > > I believe it is possible to use btrfs for /boot, but it must be the main > volume (not a subvolume). > > The automatic btrfs layout is similar to how we do the lvm automatic > partitioning. You'll get one btrfs partition on each disk with enough > space (just sda4 in your case), and these are combined to form a single > btrfs volume/filesystem. Subvolumes are created for / and /home. The > main volume is not mounted directly. /boot (ext4) is a regular > partition, as is swap. > > If grub2 learns how to identify subvolumes we will probably move /boot > into the btrfs volume as well. Thanks for the info. -- /kashyap -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
