Guided partitioning is fundamentally broken for Btrfs default use

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-05-12 at 14:08 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Originally I was thinking the installer's assertion that Btrfs is not
> resizable just needed a verbiage change to "Resize unsupported"
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962143
> 
> 
> But there's a consequence that makes this a show stopper for Btrfs
> becoming the eventual default file system.
> 
> 
> Actual behavior:
> 
> 
> 1. F18, use Guided Partitioning, partition scheme set to Btrfs, on a
> blank drive.
> 2. F19, use Guided Partitioning = can't, there isn't enough space and
> the installer won't resize Btrfs volumes. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Expected behavior:
> 
> 
> Either Guided partitioning should enable the shrinking of the Btrfs
> file system to make room for a new 500MB ext4 /boot. 
> 
> 
> OR it needs to support /boot on Btrfs subvolumes. 
> 
> 
> OR it needs to support reusing an existing /boot. 
> 
> 
> Currently none of these are supported in Guided partitioning.
> 
> 
> Work around:

Just delete the F18 partitions? Who said you had to resize them?

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