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| author | Jonathan Bauer | 2017-03-17 14:25:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Bauer | 2017-03-17 14:25:26 +0100 |
| commit | c4b902b1a49d1702e87c628cb3115271b8acbc9e (patch) | |
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| parent | added note on how to compress with virt-sparsify (diff) | |
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Added note about how to use a different filesystem
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@@ -33,5 +33,11 @@ A default password is defined in base.json and the corresponding SHA-512 hashes in the kickstart/preseed files. If you change the 'ssh_password' make sure to change the hashes in the ks/ps files (generate with 'mkpasswd -m sha-512')! +The partitioning of the virtual disk is done via kickstart/preseed files. Currently, +a simple partition scheme is used: separate boot partition, rest a the main system +partition labeled as SLX_SYS, using ext4 as filesystem. Other filesystems are also +supported, tested were currently xfs and btrfs. If you change the filesystem to use +you need to adapt your boot configuration file (SLX_MOUNT_ROOT_OPTIONS). + While the qemu builder produces a qcow2 image, it can be further compressed using: virt-sparsify --compress <qcow2_file> <output_qcow2_file> |