[arch-general] With /etc/systemd/homed.conf change of default filesystem ext4 -> btrfs, Do we set ext4?

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 21:52:07 UTC 2021


On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:03 PM David C. Rankin via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> Archdevs,
>
> With the change in /etc/systemd/homed.conf from:
>
>   < #DefaultFileSystemType=ext4
>   ---
>   > #DefaultFileSystemType=btrfs
>
> If we are running ext4, do we now need to set:
>
>   DefaultFileSystemType=ext4
>
> explicitly?
>

I don't think it matters much. It only controls the default filesystem
created inside LUKS volumes (thus it's independent of your host FS), and
when you create the volume you can override using --fs-type=ext4 anyway.


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