On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2020 at 22:30:50, ael wrote:
>
> > I am hoping to install beowulf onto a new laptop in a week or two.
> > I use f2fs on several drives with good results, so I want to
> > use it on the root partition. f2fs seems the obvious choice on ssd's.
>
> https://howtos.davidsebek.com/debian-f2fs.html may be what you need.

Thanks for that. That seems to be a workaround for the deficiences of
the debian installer, and I guess that I might have to do something like
that. But I was hoping that the devuan installer might be a bit better.

I hope that the devuan installer already has the f2fs modules in its
initramfs: despite that howto, I think that it is only the f2fs module
itself that is needed. So that would be a simple lightweight change to
the devuan version if it is not already there.

Then the f2fs-tools,libf2fs-format4 and libf2fs5 packages need to be
added to the pool. Is much else needed?

I suppose that I might be able to build an installation image like that
myself and see what happens.

ael