BTRFS? - Re: Testing F21 hard drive installation - what partition type to test?

[Robert Moskowitz]

Now that I am into the install, I can see how my choices are set up.  
Rather obscure that 'standard' means EXT4.  But with the auto selected 
BTFRS both / and /home are in the same volume and I can't see how to 
alter the size of this volume in order to increase the size of swap (I 
want 2x memory for swap).  I finally gave up, after some trial; perhaps 
if I deleted the BTFRS partition, I could then increase swap then 
recreate it?

In the end, for now, I switched to standard, as it is easy to first 
shrink /, then increase swap, and finally by removing the size in /home 
altogether, to get /home to take up all that is available for it.

Definitely, later, going to have to figure out how to setup btfrs to get 
supposedly better SSD performance over ext4.

Meanwhile, once I used the netinst server iso, I saw how easy it is to 
select a workstation.  So I'll know soon if I have nvram problems with f21.

thank you.

On 11/25/2014 01:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Well, I am now booted up with Live Workstation F21 TC4 on my Lenovo 
> x120e.
>
> But my first task I want to do is a Anaconda hard drive install. With 
> no real workstation install media, it seems that the server install 
> media is the way to go at this point.
>
> My current Lenovo x120e running F20 (where we had that bug with nvram 
> writing) is set up as:
>
> # parted /dev/sda print
> Model: ATA Crucial_CT240M50 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
> Partition Table: gpt
> Disk Flags:
>
> Number  Start   End     Size    File system Name Flags
>  1      1049kB  211MB   210MB   fat16           EFI System Partition  
> boot
>  2      211MB   735MB   524MB   ext4
>  3      735MB   32.2GB  31.5GB  ext4
>  4      32.2GB  40.6GB  8389MB  linux-swap(v1)
>  5      40.6GB  240GB   199GB   ext4
>
> The new unit is the same model with the same SSD drive.
>
> I have been using ext4, but am aware that there might be newer, 
> 'better' types for notebooks.  Should I stay with testing ext4 or 
> should I test a different type out?
>
> I have a local repo with the whole os directory.  I can do a local 
> netinstal  Or at least that is the theory.
>
>