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#1 2014-03-25 08:21:34

adam777
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Registered: 2012-05-28
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[Solved] Btrfs Partitioning Advice

Hello all,
I'm about to install Arch from scratch (some small issues piled up...) and consider using btrfs this time instead of EXT4.
It's a simple GPT disk, nothing fancy.
A couple questions that come to mind:
- If I remember correctly, a few months ago I read Syslinux does not support booting a btrfs partition compressed with lzo (which is my plan), is it still correct?
- Suppose it is, do all I need is a separate /boot partition of roughly 100MB, with a EXT4 file system on it and the rest can be compressed Btrfs?
Thanks, Adam.

Last edited by adam777 (2014-03-25 12:45:14)

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#2 2014-03-25 08:31:37

the_shiver
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Registered: 2013-03-27
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Re: [Solved] Btrfs Partitioning Advice

yes and yes
see warning about syslinux and btrfs here: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ … _Changelog

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#3 2014-03-25 12:40:33

bstaletic
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Registered: 2014-02-02
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Re: [Solved] Btrfs Partitioning Advice

Affirmative on both. I used that kind of setup and everything had worked perfectly. But than I realised I did not need that kind of setup and that I was overcomplicating.

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#4 2014-03-25 12:45:04

adam777
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Registered: 2012-05-28
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Re: [Solved] Btrfs Partitioning Advice

Great, thank you both.
Perhaps I'll just go with Grub, it seem to support compressed btrfs partitions.
I don't need anything special anyway.

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#5 2014-03-25 14:27:20

WonderWoofy
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Registered: 2012-05-19
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Re: [Solved] Btrfs Partitioning Advice

Syslinux still doesn't seem to handle btrfs subvolumes very nicely, and IMO, if you are going to use btrfs you should be playing with subvols.

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