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Add XFS as an option for root partition
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XFS is an extremely stable and well supported file system. I'm looking into giving the installer the ability to use XFS for /home when customizing the partitions.

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Why limit it to just /home rather than the entire filesystem?

Mainly because I have to learn python to do this. I'm not sure what will be easier to do, but I'm going to study the source and see about integrating it for /home as a start.

In the end, it may be easier to do it for the whole thing. I don't know yet, but I'd really like the chance to figure it out.

@JoshStrobl and @ikey how can I generate a test install image? I'm currently upgrading a bunch of packages in the livedvd environment in VirtualBox to get my git fork of the installer to test. There must be a better way.

Edit: Should probably mention, this method makes me unable to mount the root image to actually do the install.

Figured it out, currently have a pr on Github. Unless you want to have a separate boot partition when using xfs on bios only system, we may need to not enable xfs for root as grub panics when trying to boot from it.

Xfs home and ext4 root work as expected.

JoshStrobl triaged this task as Normal priority.Oct 16 2018, 6:41 PM

we may need to not enable xfs for root as grub panics when trying to boot from it.

To be clear, I personally want XFS root, no dedicated home partition :D

Has anyone gotten this to work? I tried to rebase the pull request @stobbsm had but the installer still forces me to format to EXT4 and doesn't allow me to unselect the "format" option.

JoshStrobl renamed this task from Add XFS as an option for /home to Add XFS as an option for root partition.Oct 5 2020, 7:18 AM
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Moved to GitHub for the new installer https://github.com/getsolus/solus-installer/issues/20