Anno domini 2020 Tue, 19 May 21:56:16 +0100 ael scripsit: > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 May 2020 at 22:30:50, ael wrote: > > > > > I am hoping to install beowulf onto a new laptop in a week or two. > > > I use f2fs on several drives with good results, so I want to > > > use it on the root partition. f2fs seems the obvious choice on ssd's. > > > > https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html may be what you need. >
Has anybody done this successfully on beowulf? I tried today but the kernel crashed - last message was something about it not beeing able to mount the root filesystem. The kernel I used was from the "official" rpi repository, it has f2fs built in. Nik > Thanks for that. That seems to be a workaround for the deficiences of > the debian installer, and I guess that I might have to do something like > that. But I was hoping that the devuan installer might be a bit better. > > I hope that the devuan installer already has the f2fs modules in its > initramfs: despite that howto, I think that it is only the f2fs module > itself that is needed. So that would be a simple lightweight change to > the devuan version if it is not already there. > > Then the f2fs-tools,libf2fs-format4 and libf2fs5 packages need to be > added to the pool. Is much else needed? > > I suppose that I might be able to build an installation image like that > myself and see what happens. > > ael > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng