On 2/23/2013 3:38 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2013/2/23 John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com>: >> >On 2/23/2013 12:51 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: >>> >>What if you create a /boot partition as EXT2 or EXT3, and the rest of the partitions as XFS? I suspect grub would be happy then. >> > >> >you'd need to get the xfsutils into the initdr. I'm not sure thats >> >feasible. plus, I don't think the anaconda installer has any ability >> >to setup an XFS root, so that makes things even more complicated. > well well, maybe only solution is to setup tiny boot and install base > system and then just format rest of fs to xfs and move files to it? yeah, I'd probably just use a relatively small ext4 with / (including /usr), then make /var and /home XFS... if you make extensive use of /usr/local and/or /opt, make those XFS too via lvm logical volumes mounted. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast