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
>
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