Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2023-09-15 at 15:17 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/15/2023 03:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > The advantage btrfs has is that the volumes share the same space.  > > So > > you can have / and /home be separate, but you don't have to decide > > on > > how much space each one gets.  And

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 6:56 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 09:17 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > > From the *practical* side, perhaps it would be worth considering > > whether your use case is the usual and common case - 6-16 GB RAM, > > 500GB - 1TB disk, regular (hourly) backup,

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.09.2023 um 22:20 schrieb John Mellor : > >> ... >> > Umm, no. > Fedora server uses LVM because that's what most people have upgraded from. We had an intensive discussion on our working group about the default file system. Obviously, I missed you? Or did I just imagine the extensive

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.09.2023 um 23:11 schrieb Samuel Sieb : > > The advantage btrfs has is that the volumes share the same space. So you can > have / and /home be separate, Think again, you hopefully recognize the 'contradictio in adiecto' yourself. > And you can still do a re-install while keeping the

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2023-09-16 at 09:17 +0200, Peter Boy wrote: > From the *practical* side, perhaps it would be worth considering > whether your use case is the usual and common case - 6-16 GB RAM, > 500GB - 1TB disk, regular (hourly) backup, etc. I would say the *most* usual and common would be no backups

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-16 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.09.2023 um 23:05 schrieb Joe Zeff : > > On 09/15/2023 02:20 PM, John Mellor wrote: >> Fedora desktop uses BTRFS by default for a number of really good reasons. >> BTRFS detects bit-rot on the fly. With mirrored or RAIDed disks it can also >> correct that bit-rot on the fly. > > And

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2023 03:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: The advantage btrfs has is that the volumes share the same space.  So you can have / and /home be separate, but you don't have to decide on how much space each one gets.  And you can still do a re-install while keeping the files in /home.  Also, if

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/15/23 14:05, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/15/2023 02:20 PM, John Mellor wrote: Fedora desktop uses BTRFS by default for a number of really good reasons.  BTRFS detects bit-rot on the fly.  With mirrored or RAIDed disks it can also correct that bit-rot on the fly. And what advantages does

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/15/2023 02:20 PM, John Mellor wrote: Fedora desktop uses BTRFS by default for a number of really good reasons.  BTRFS detects bit-rot on the fly.  With mirrored or RAIDed disks it can also correct that bit-rot on the fly. And what advantages does either it or LVM have for a home user

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread John Mellor
On 2023-09-15 2:07 p.m., Peter Boy wrote: Am 15.09.2023 um 17:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : WHat is the reason Peter behind xfs being used on the server edition and btrfs on the workstation? I pretty much stick with ext3. I don't even use ext4 really. I've never used xfs. It is basically about

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.09.2023 um 17:23 schrieb Bill Cunningham : > > >> ... >> >> WHat is the reason Peter behind xfs being used on the server edition and >> btrfs on the workstation? I pretty much stick with ext3. I don't even use >> ext4 really. I've never used xfs. > > Bill It is basically about

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-15 11:23 (UTC-0400): >> WHat is the reason Peter behind xfs being used on the server edition and >> btrfs on the workstation? I pretty much stick with ext3. I don't even use >> ext4 really. I use EXT3 and EXT4. EXT4 is much faster. -- Evolution as taught in

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/15/2023 2:56 AM, Peter Boy wrote: Am 15.09.2023 um 04:57 schrieb Felix Miata : BTRFS devs seem to think only one is somehow better due to its inclusion of LVM technology. There is no „inclusion of LVM technology“ in BTRFS. LVM provides you with several separate filesystems, completely

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 3:57 AM Peter Boy wrote: > > > > Am 15.09.2023 um 04:57 schrieb Felix Miata : > > > > BTRFS devs seem to > > think only one is somehow better due to its inclusion of LVM technology. > > There is no „inclusion of LVM technology“ in BTRFS. LVM provides you with > several

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
Peter Boy composed on 2023-09-15 08:56 (UTC+0200): >> Felix Miata composed: >> BTRFS devs seem to >> think only one is somehow better due to its inclusion of LVM technology. > There is no „inclusion of LVM technology“ in BTRFS. LVM provides you with > several separate filesystems, completely

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-15 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 15.09.2023 um 04:57 schrieb Felix Miata : > > BTRFS devs seem to > think only one is somehow better due to its inclusion of LVM technology. There is no „inclusion of LVM technology“ in BTRFS. LVM provides you with several separate filesystems, completely independent from each other. A

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Felix Miata
Joe Zeff composed on 2023-09-14 20:49 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I always have my/home/ on a separate >> filesystem. My guess is it is an administrative thing. They probably get or think they get more and/or wilder complaints about mal-sizing separate filesystems than they do not

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/14/2023 08:17 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I always have my/home/ on a separate filesystem. Same here. I've never understood why Anaconda doesn't do that by default. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-14 21:15 (UTC-0400): >     I am just starting to get into the UEFI with my newer computer. I > notice that f38's auto partitioning creates a partition and formats it > with xfs. I suppose manually ext4 could be used. This drive I don't > believe is too big

Re: GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/14/23 18:15, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I am just starting to get into the UEFI with my newer computer. I notice that f38's auto partitioning creates a partition and formats it with xfs. I suppose manually ext4 could be used. This drive I don't believe is too big for ext4. But it would

GPT Partition

2023-09-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I am just starting to get into the UEFI with my newer computer. I notice that f38's auto partitioning creates a partition and formats it with xfs. I suppose manually ext4 could be used. This drive I don't believe is too big for ext4. But it would take a little time to format.     My

QEMU boot of raw GPT partition

2014-02-11 Thread Pedro Francisco
Hello! I'm considering the hypothesis of booting a raw GPT partition on QEMU. I was pondering basing my attempt on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Simulate_virtual_disk_with_MBR_using_linear_RAID. Basically, I would create a fake GPT partition table (actually, two, since

Re: QEMU boot of raw GPT partition

2014-02-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Pedro Francisco pedrogfrancisco.pub...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I'm considering the hypothesis of booting a raw GPT partition on QEMU. I was pondering basing my attempt on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU