Hi Ryan!
If you claim the Linux partition half of the device for a Stratis pool,
using Stratis as the root filesystem is doable. You'd simply need to
back up your current install somewhere, claim that partition for a
Stratis pool, and then create your partitions for Linux by creating
filesystems that you intend to mount at the various mount points like /,
/var, etc.
More concretely, you'd want to back up your data, then let's say your
drive is /dev/sda, the Windows partition is /dev/sda1, and the Linux
partition is /dev/sda2. You'd want to create a pool using /dev/sda2 and
then create your desired filesystems on that pool, mount them in the
appropriate places, and copy your data back over from the root
filesystem with the appropriate user, group and SELinux permissions. I
tried something like this while I was developing the process and it did
work once the permissions were sorted out, so I know it's possible.
If you bump into any problems, please let me know and I'm happy to
troubleshoot with you! Also, please do back up your data if you intend
to try this because the official process that I've developed for this at
the moment involves using Anaconda for the install so while I'm happy to
develop some documentation with you for alternate methods, this is still
uncharted territory at the moment in terms of documentation.
One alternate option is trying it in a VM first if you want to play
around with setting the appropriate permissions and all of the details.
Please let me know how it goes and if I can help with anything else. Thanks!
John Baublitz
Senior Software Engineer, Storage, Stratis team
he/him/his
On 8/16/21 12:05 AM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
I was hoping to play around with using Stratis as my rootfs, but only
half my drive is used for my Linux install (with Windows on the other half). Would it be
possible to create a Stratis pool covering just a portion of the block device?
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