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From: Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition question
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:40:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F1218C.4000701@home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130111223845.GV19051@carfax.org.uk>

Op 11-1-2013 23:38, Hugo Mills schreef:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl> wrote:
>>> I have one thing I think I don't really understand about btrfs,
>>>
>>> Normally if I use ext4 I make a  3 partitions for my distro.
>>>
>>> one for boot about 1G
>>> one for home about 30G
>>> one for root for the rest of my 100G.
>>>
>>> Now I wonder if I want to do the same with btrfs.
>>>
>>> Can I do the same so make 3 partitions with btrfs or can I better make 1 partiton of 100G and make the /boot /home and  / subvolumes of the big partitiion.
>>>
>>> Can one of you btfrs gurus shine a light of this matter ?
>> You can make one Btrfs volume with /boot, /home, and / as
>> subvolumes. GRUB2 2.00 can boot this arrangement, and that's the
>> first caveat which is that many distributions are using older
>> versions of GRUB2. It even works with Btrfs data/metadata profiles
>> single, dup; and multiple device raid 0, 1, 10; and compression
>> zlib, and lzo.
>>
>> Swap still needs to be on a separate partition, as I don't think
>> Btrfs is supporting swapfiles yet still, but maybe someone else can
>> comment on the status of that.
>     I don't know this area of the code at all well, but as I understand
> it, there's been some work in the kernel (swap over NFS) which lays
> down some of the underlying infrastructure we'd need to support
> swapfiles on btrfs, but we don't have anything beyond that. I don't
> know of anyone working on it, either.
>
>     Hugo.
>

Im testing Crux where I must make a custom partiion scheme before I can 
start the installer.
And Im making this scheme before because people told me that was the 
best way to work.

Roelof


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 19:21 partition question Roelof Wobben
2013-01-11 22:29 ` Chris Carlin
2013-01-11 22:34 ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-11 22:38   ` Hugo Mills
2013-01-12  8:40     ` Roelof Wobben [this message]
2013-01-15  1:39     ` dima
2013-01-16 13:12     ` David Sterba

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