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[[User:donniezazen|donniezazen]] ([[User talk:donniezazen|talk]]) 07:45, 05 December 2013 (IST)
[[User:donniezazen|donniezazen]] ([[User talk:donniezazen|talk]]) 07:45, 05 December 2013 (IST)
: You've misunderstood - you don't need to create a spare partition. Modern tools leave a ~1MB unused gap by starting the first partition at sector 2048. That leaves space for the bootloader. [[User:Teppic74|Teppic74]] ([[User talk:Teppic74|talk]]) 02:17, 13 June 2014 (UTC)


== Things to do ==
== Things to do ==

Revision as of 02:17, 13 June 2014

Note: The name of the file system does not seem to have an official capitalization, so the rule for the ArchWiki has been arbitrarily set to use "Btrfs" (capital "B" and the rest lower-case); "btrfs" and "BTRFS" are therefore wrong spellings in this wiki. -- Kynikos (talk) 09:36, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Grub Partition Offset

I can confirm that btrfs can be installed without creating a 1 or 2 MB partition at the beginning of the disk using the latest December ISO.

donniezazen (talk) 07:45, 05 December 2013 (IST)

You've misunderstood - you don't need to create a spare partition. Modern tools leave a ~1MB unused gap by starting the first partition at sector 2048. That leaves space for the bootloader. Teppic74 (talk) 02:17, 13 June 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Things to do

Here are some items that seem to need addressing on this article. I am working on various parts of it at the moment.

  1. Reflow headings:
    1. Goals: Effective_Use_of_Headers#Use_of_headers_and_headings
      1. Helpful ideas:
        1. Effective_Use_of_Headers#False_multi-level_structure
          1. Side-note
          2. Auxiliary information
        2. Effective_Use_of_Headers#Multi-level_structure
          1. Group arguments
          2. Alternative arguments
          3. Contradictory arguments
        3. Effective_Use_of_Headers#The_header_text
        4. Article_Naming_Guidelines
          1. Specificity, "Descriptivity," Brevity, "Expandibility,"
      2. See Btrfs Wiki for ideas.
      3. See Beginners' Guide for ideas.
    2. Proposed changes
      1. "Installation" -> "Preparation"
        1. New -> "System Requirements"
        2. Remove -> "Additional packages"
          1. Move -> links to "See also" or "Related".
        3. "Partitioning" -> "Prepare the storage drive"
          1. OR: "Partitioning" (as a child) -> "Choose a partition scheme"
      2. New -> "Create file systems"
        1. "Creating a new file system" -> "New file systems"
          1. "Examples"
            1. New -> "Single-drive file systems"
            2. "Multi-device filesystem and RAID feature" -> "Multi-drive file systems"
              1. Reduce content, provide links to "Btrfs Wiki" instead.
        2. "Convert from Ext3/4" -> "Convert existing file system"
      3. New -> "Configuring the file system"
        1. OR: Move -> "Tips and tricks"
        2. Move -> "Mount options"
          1. "Copy-On-Write (CoW)" -> "Copy-on-write"
            1. "Checkpoint Interval" -> Merge
          2. Move -> "Compression"
        3. New -> "Skinny extents"
        4. Move -> "Sub-volumes"
        5. New -> "Quotas"
      4. New -> "File system management"
        1. Move -> "Balance"
        2. Move -> "Defragmentation"
        3. Move -> "Display used/free space"
        4. Move -> "Balance"
        5. Move -> "Snapshots"
      5. Move -> "Tips and tricks"
      6. New -> "Troubleshooting"
        1. Move -> "Encryption"
        2. Move -> "GRUB"
        3. Move -> "Swap file"
        4. New -> "Btrfsck"
          1. See -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156100
      7. Move -> "See also"

Edits: AdamT (Talk) 08:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC); AdamT (Talk) 04:03, 29 November 2013 (UTC); AdamT (Talk) 04:10, 29 November 2013 (UTC); AdamT (Talk) 02:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I hope to get to this soon if there are no objections or comments. AdamT (Talk) 20:09, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]