Re: Fedora 18 status is Go, release planned for January 15, 2013

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

Kevin,

Wuss. I set up both / and /home with btrfs. So far so good.

--Doc

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 15:26 -0600, Kevin Thomas wrote:
> I stuck with ext4 too.  I'm not ready to go to into the deep end yet.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         I am going to stick with ext4 and xfs, but if someone does and
>         makes use of the advanced things btrfs does, definitely let
>         the list know
>         
>         On Jan 18, 2013 8:55 AM, "Kevin Thomas" <axel2078@gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>                 Is anyone going to be brave enough to try btrfs? :)
>                 
>                 Kevin
>                 
>                 On 1/16/2013 8:24 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>                         On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 20:50 -0600, Robert G.
>                         (Doc) Savage wrote:
>                                 Yes, RHEL7 will branch from F18.
>                                 
>                                 Not 100% sure about the final default
>                                 filesystem. I'm still backing up
>                                 my F17 hard drive before beginning the
>                                 TC4 install on hardware. However,
>                                 in earlier betas ext4 was still the
>                                 default. I've heard there are other
>                                 choices, but I can't tell you from my
>                                 own knowledge quite yet.
>                                 
>                                 --Doc
>                                 
>                                 On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 22:38 -0600,
>                                 Kevin Thomas wrote:
>                                         I thought that someone said
>                                         that RHEL would be based on
>                                         Fedora 18, is
>                                         that correct? How is 18
>                                         looking for those that have
>                                         tried it? What is
>                                         the default file system
>                                         format?
>                         OK. I'm now installing from the final release
>                         F18 x86_64 DVD so I can
>                         answer your question.
>                         
>                         At the INSTALLATION DESTINATION screen, select
>                         the disk(s) you want F18
>                         installed to and click on Done in the bottom
>                         right corner. The screen
>                         will gray out except for a white rectangle in
>                         the center titled
>                         INSTALLATION OPTIONS. Click on the [+]
>                         Partition scheme configuration.
>                         There you'll see a choice between Standard
>                         Partition, LVM, and btrfs
>                         "Partition types". Whichever one you choose,
>                         you still have the option
>                         to check "Let me customize the partitioning of
>                         the disks instead."
>                         
>                         Editorial comment: The new all-graphical
>                         anaconda is mostly black &
>                         white, and not particularly well laid out.
>                         Your gaze is not "led"
>                         smoothly around the various screens. It has
>                         very little visual appeal.
>                         Hopefully they'll hand those screens over to
>                         the graphic artists when
>                         RHEL7 branches.
>                         
>                         --Doc




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