On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I
don't
want to touch the hard drive.
After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the partition
and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (mainly around block side
and erase boundaries)
So I booted to Fedora 22 Workstation and before running the installer setup
a /boot and "/" partition and formatted them. Now when I'm trying to
configure disks it's telling me that "You must create a new file system on
the root device."
WTF?!? So what if I want to format the partition with specific options?
Specifically stride and stripe-width...
Those options apply to RAID. If you're using software RAID, the mkfs
command is supposed to autodetect the geometry being used by lower
layers and picks the correct options automatically. If you're using
hardware RAID you either need to specify these options at mkfs time,
or you can use mount options to do it. For an SD card, it sounds
inapplicable.
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Chris Murphy