How to install FC5 on XFS?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 3 05:14:42 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 00:41 +0000, zyk at hotpop.com wrote:
> I am trying to install FC5 on XFS. I have been using FC on XFS since FC3 and install processes always had been very smooth. 
> It seems that FC5 (or Anaconda) does not accept /boot on XFS filesystem. Did anyone have success to install FC5 on XFS partition?
> Thanks.
> 

I believe that is intentional. There are wide spread reports on problems
with booting off a XFS partition. 

For example, http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060501#tips

Note that other filesystems besides Ext3 is provided only for migration
reasons and not testing is being done on them.

Rahul




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