btrfs supported in Fedora 12?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Mar 16 18:15:53 UTC 2010


drago01 wrote:
> You can't ... you need to use another installation method than the
> live media to use any other fs than ext4.
> 
> The live media installation basically copies the the ext4 image to
> disk and re-sizes it.
> 
> Using the install DVD or a netinstall image you can use any supported
> fs (including brtfs when passing the magic "icantbelieveitsnotbtr").

It's also possible to convert the ext4 partition written by the live image 
to btrfs post installation, btrfs can convert ext* partitions.

        Kevin Kofler



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