Re: XFS on root
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:09:09 -0800 David Christensen
<dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:11:17AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > I found that the Wheezy installer offers btrfs (xfs also?), but only
> > boots ext[234]
>
> On 02/26/2016 11:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > My wheezy box has an ext4 /boot and a btrfs /. No problems booting
> > that.
>
> Yes -- checking my notes, it looks like btrfs on /boot breaks
> install-grub (in the installer), but ext4 on /boot and btrfs on /
> works.
From my experience, grub-install completes successfully on non-ext
file-systems, but then fails to retrieve the necessary data from /boot
on boot.
My solution to this (because XFS is my favourite filesystem next to
ReiserFS) has been to use ext2 for /boot and XFS for / and /home. I can
confirm this configuration works tickety-boo- I use it on my Jessie
box at the moment.
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