F21: Dare I ask about /boot on a btrfs subvolume?

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 03:20:39 UTC 2014


On 27.10.2014 14:19, Gene Czarcinski wrote:

> Yes, Peter (pjones is the grubby maintainer) has informed me that Fedora 
> 22 (currently in rawhide) will be the target for btrfs support in the 
> grubby package.
> 
> Right now, for full support, you can put /boot on a regular partition 
> with the rootfs ("/") in a subvolume or you can install the rootfs ("/") 
> into the btrfs volume and let /boot be a simple directory.
> 
> The updates to grubby will support /boot being in a subvolume as well as 
> the rootfs ("/") being in a subvolume with /boot being a simple directory.
> 
> Adding btrfs support to grubby involved a lot of code and changing the 
> debugging from a compile time option to a run time option so I can well 
> understand Peter wanting to allow for lots of review.
> 
> If you are daring and want to give it a try, the grubby package with my 
> btrfs support added is available here:
> http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/20/ and http://czarc.org/fedora/repo/21/
> 
> Since you may not have my version of grubby when you install, simply run:
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
...

grubby grubby grubby grubby grubby grubby
and at the end you finishes with the grub2-mkconfig. :)
What gets support, grubby or grub!?


poma




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