Anno domini 2020 Tue, 19 May 21:56:16 +0100
ael scripsit:
> 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.
>

Has anybody done this successfully on beowulf? I tried today but the kernel crashed - last message was something about it not beeing able to mount the root filesystem. The kernel I used was from the "official" rpi repository, it has f2fs built in.

Nik

> 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
>
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