On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:43 -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
On Feb 26, 2014 7:24 AM, "Josh Boyer"
<jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> > - Other than lack of shrink support in XFS, I'd say XFS is suitable for
Workstation as well. Would the Workstation WG have concerns about the lack
of fs shrink support in the default file system? [1]
>
> I don't think shrink support is a factor at all for Workstation.
>
...
> josh
Filesystem shrinking should be a *requirement* for Workstation. I'd love
to see Fedora as everyone's primary and only OS, but that's a long term
goal. As the flagship desktop offering, Fedora Workstation will be the
first choice for inexperienced or casual users, the class of users that
boot multiple OSen. The class of users that would switch primary
distributions in frustration on discovering that they are forced to
reinstall to gain a bit of unallocated space.
Well, you're never 'forced' to do that. You can always just do the
shrink in pre-flight. It's convenient to have it available from the
installer, but it's not *necessary*.
It is kind of a significant convenience, though, and I agree Josh kinda
underplayed it. Losing the ability to install alongside full-disk
Windows installations without asking the user to do some pre-flight work
themselves would be a significant loss.
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