default btrfs partitioning setup

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 11:08:24 UTC 2015


I have an older setup created by anaconda from 2013, and it looks like

UUID=7246327b-1905-4fe2-9b6b-b9376017264f /                       btrfs   
subvolid=5,subvol=root00 0 0
UUID=2c04be93-34c1-4016-ba41-60fd9fd90616 /boot                   ext4    
defaults        1 2
UUID=7246327b-1905-4fe2-9b6b-b9376017264f /home                   btrfs   
subvol=home     0 0

So we have only 1 disk.  There is 1 btrfs partition, but root and home are 2 
different btrfs subvolumes.  This is a good setup IMO, since I can reinstall 
the OS without touching home.

I recently got a laptop and did F21 install using btrfs, and I believe I 
used automatic partitioning.  This time, I got just 1 btrfs subvol with home 
as a subdir, which does not offer the flexibility.

I suggest the default for btrfs should be as shown above, with home on a 
separate subvol.

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