that looks mega-complicated, jan. iirc, you can just type "linux xfs" at the boot prompt when you boot off of the fedora cd/dvd. when you do it should be available in disk druid. btw, I have been using xfs since fedora core 1, and have not had any problems, although i haven't run any tests on it yet. On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:20 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 20:08, Jan Depner wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 19:11, Barton Bosch wrote: > > > I'm going to be doing a fresh install of FC2 in the near future and > > > am considering using an XFS data partition for music and video files. > > > > > > It seems that XFS isn't an install time option (according to Disk > > > Druid). How is an XFS partition added? Does anyone here have any > > > experiences or pointers to share WRT XFS or XFS and FC2? > > > > > > > The easy way is to make the other partitions as ext3 in Disk Druid, > > after you boot up do a df to see what partitions they are on (for > > instance, /dev/hda5), umount the partitions, do mkfs.xfs -f /dev/hda5 > > (or whatever the partition is), edit /etc/fstab and change the LABEL= > > part for those partitions to be /dev/hda5 (or whatever), then mount the > > partitions. > > > > Oops. I forgot to mention, change the ext3 to xfs in /etc/fstab for > those partitions. > > Jan >
