partitioning new machine

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed May 6 15:33:53 UTC 2015


birger wrote:

> With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume.
> The default is to have separate subvolumes for / and /home.
> 
> When doing a new install you can create a new / with a new subvolume
> name within the same btrfs file system. rootfs-22 instead of just
> root for example. That way you can mount your old / as a subdirectory
> while moving over all your config to the new /, and you can keep
> the same /home. When you are done, delete the old / subvolume
> and you get your space back without any repartitioning.
> 
> look at the subvol=XXX in /etc/fstab
> 

perfect, so I should be able to do this through Anaconda, correct?



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