From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q0U9C2BR001359 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:12:03 -0600 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Dmj7ddlRuqJpJb5H for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:12:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F265EE3.6020908@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:12:03 -0600 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported References: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Marcos Mello Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com On 1/29/2012 6:46 AM, Marcos Mello wrote: > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=anaconda.git;a=commit;h=b3e19d43840f6c4015fab75411853003fcf26a63 > > Does someone knows why? I'm trying to get rid of EXT* partitions on my new > CentOS 6.2 installs but apparently it will not be possible. I'm unsure what this Fedora commit is all about, but in the general Linux case you can put root on XFS, with a minor caveat. See: http://www.xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Can_XFS_be_used_for_a_root_filesystem.3F -- Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs