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Old 12th October 2009, 08:42 AM
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Installation with XFS partitions [SOLVED]

Hi ll.
I need to make a fresh new installation of KDE Fedora 11 where some partitions are formatted using XFS.
The installer's partitioning wizard has no option for XFS.
I've been able to load the XFS module as root (modprobe xfs) but it looks like the XFS tools are completely missing.
Two of these partitions are / and /home so it'd be quite hard to do the "switch" after the installation.

I have read the FAQs at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#reiserjfs as well as the XFS thing by Colin Charles.
But as I am new to Fedora I don't understand the sentence "At the installer prompt, type this ...".
If the installed is the bootloader, then adding the xfs in the end of the boot line won't help.
If the installer is the iconized program I see on the desktop after the end of the boot, the it's name is "liveinst" and adding the xfs option won't help.

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Old 12th October 2009, 01:22 PM
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If you are using a liveCD, the only filesystem you can install is ext4. This is due to the fact that Fedora used ext4 on the cd and since the cd content is only copied to hdd, the hdd has to be ext4 formated. What these posts probably mean is the installation dvd. With that, you have several more options available with respect to filesystems. I haven't read the articel, but what it probably means is to add this particular parameter at the boot prompt of the dvd.
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Old 12th October 2009, 05:35 PM
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CSchwangler,
it seems you are right.
I still don't think the live CD makes a "dd of=/dev/sda2 of=..." for the installation: that would be so troublesome and error prone to make it impractical.
More likely it could be a "tar xfj rootfs.tar.bz2 /media/rootfs ...".
Anyway, DVD media allowed me to specify XFS as a file system type, probably because I added an "xfs" string at the end of the boot command.
Thanks a lot.
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