From: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
To: dima <dolenin@parallels.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:55:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215085530.GA31915@attic.humilis.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE9AFD8.1010306@parallels.com>
dima wrote (ao):
> >>format the device to
> >>btrfs and use subvolumes instead of your usual partitions (some
> >>/boot restrictions apply). You won't be able to use grub2 though,
> >>but syslinux will work.
> >
> >Grub2 has btrfs support for quite some time now, which you are aware of
> >I assume. Grub2 can't cope with / in a subvolume or something?
>
> No, btrfs has nothing to do with this. It is just that grub2 cannot
> be installed to a partition-less drive (at least 1 partition is
> needed), while syslinux can.
Ah, wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info!
Sander
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 13:00 What is best practice when partitioning a device that holds one or more btr-filesystems Wilfred van Velzen
2011-12-14 13:17 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-12-14 16:43 ` Peeters Simon
[not found] ` <CAKcLGm-LZmyOKm4gegZDRYaq-DO-KW+5CCb_E7n8WvF0fEFCeQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-14 18:51 ` Wilfred van Velzen
[not found] ` <CA+WRLO98Je2J1SMZv0zVi1r1AfGFcnUCHKU=sJAsYDuUssqx8w@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-14 21:42 ` Wilfred van Velzen
2011-12-14 22:46 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-12-15 0:42 ` Kok, Auke-jan H
2011-12-15 1:09 ` dima
2011-12-15 8:25 ` Sander
2011-12-15 8:29 ` dima
2011-12-15 8:55 ` Sander [this message]
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