From: Chris Carlin <chrisrcarlin@gmail.com>
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Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: partition question
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:29:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHX0HSZoCpuOiOdNmLpU8LBtTXv=A1ddNdovtrUTGcP_wgvPHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F06639.6030409@home.nl>
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
Well. what is your motivation for doing it that way in the ext4?
If you're looking to be able to selectively mount sections of your
filesystem, then sure, subvolumes might work, but a lot of people
divide partitions this way so that they'd be independent for purposes
of reliability. Subvolumes of one btrfs partition wouldn't provide
that independence.
~Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 22:29 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 [this message]
2013-01-11 22:34 ` Chris Murphy
2013-01-11 22:38 ` Hugo Mills
2013-01-12 8:40 ` Roelof Wobben
2013-01-15 1:39 ` dima
2013-01-16 13:12 ` David Sterba
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