On Tue, 8 May 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > The suggestion: The installer gets you to a screen giving you the
> > ability to partition using one of three methods. Two of the three
> > methods do not give you the ability to create an XFS partition (I tried
> > them).
>
> You're confusing terminology a little here - you create a "Linux Native"
> partition, then you format that partition - either with ext2, xfs,
> reiserfs, or whatever.
I was unaware which partition type you were installing onto. The problem
comes from the intermingling of "Linux native" in the partition sense
(type 83), and "Linux native" in the file system sense, which tends to be
taken to be ext2. I was unaware that XFS installs atop a type 83
partition.
> Disk druid only handles partitioning, this is (mostly) unrelated to
> filesystem selection. Both XFS and ext2 _do_ live on the same type of
> partition ("Linux Native").
True, with the caveat that the usual course of most installers (the RedHat
in particular) ask you the mount point and the file system type at the
point of creation of the partition (the custom partitioner in particular).
The RedHat tool (launched from the XFS install CD) lets you create a /
mount point, as a Linux native file system. It doesn't indicate XFS as an
option. If this option can be selected later, I would like to point out
that this breaks with the direction from several distros, specifically
RedHat, Mandrake, and others.
> After you go through partitioning, it should ask you about filesystem
> formatting, which is when you get to choose between ext2 and XFS for
> each partition.
See above. Look at the Mandrake disk partitioner/file system mountpoint
and file system type installer for an example of a good way to do this.
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Joe Landman,
landman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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