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Re: Hardcoding of ext3 as partman's default filesystem



Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24:57AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> How about a partman/default_filesystem template in partman-base,
>> defaulting to ext3, and then a $default expansion in the filesystem
>> field in partitioning recipes? That would make it a matter of a boot
>> parameter to change the default filesystem, and would make the code a
>> bit more elegant IMO.
>
> Sounds like a good plan.
>
> I am unsure on how you plan to write the expansion, but it might be
> better to have a $default_fs or $default_filesystem instead of an
> unspecific $default.

I fully agree. This makes the whole thing easier to change even more
for blends.

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