Installing F14 beta using btrfs question

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 10/03/2010 05:32 PM, stan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because everything went so well with the beta, I thought about
> overwriting an old F10 partition with F14 as a test bed for btrfs.  But
> I noticed that it isn't possible to reformat (or format) to btrfs as
> part of the install (at least it wasn't with the custom partitioning
> scheme).
>
> Would there be a way to do this, even indirectly?
>
> The nearest I've come so far is to reformat the partition as btrfs, and
> then do an rsync from the new F14-beta ext4 partition.  Of
> course, I'd have to edit fstab, and grub, etc. but these are
> pretty minor tweaks.  Would I need a separate boot for grub as ext4, or
> can it boot from btrfs?
>

hit tab, then specify btrfs on the kernel cmd line.  Worked nicely for me.

Regards,
OldFart