[pve-devel] [PATCH docs 7/7] installer: revise intro of advanced ZFS/BTRFS configuration options
Alexander Zeidler
a.zeidler at proxmox.com
Tue Mar 4 16:41:01 CET 2025
* ZFS: Restructure the sentence.
* BTRFS: Explain the swap configuration options in a little more detail.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zeidler <a.zeidler at proxmox.com>
---
pve-installation.adoc | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pve-installation.adoc b/pve-installation.adoc
index 3b3dc5d..1c143e2 100644
--- a/pve-installation.adoc
+++ b/pve-installation.adoc
@@ -362,9 +362,9 @@ web interface for further configuration.
Advanced LVM Configuration Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The installer creates a Volume Group (VG) called `pve`, and additional Logical
-Volumes (LVs) called `root`, `data`, and `swap`, if `ext4` or `xfs` is used. To
-control the size of these volumes use:
+If `ext4` or `xfs` is used, the installer creates a Volume Group (VG)
+called `pve`, and additional Logical Volumes (LVs) called `root`,
+`data`, and `swap`. To control the size of these volumes, use:
`hdsize`::
@@ -455,10 +455,11 @@ first disk or mirror for RAID0, RAID1 or RAID10, and all disks in RAID-Z[123].
Advanced BTRFS Configuration Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-No swap space is created when BTRFS is used but you can reserve some
-unpartitioned space on the install disks for swap. You can either create a
-separate partition, BTRFS subvolume or a swapfile using the `btrfs filesystem
-mkswapfile` command.
+While no swap space is created when BTRFS is used, you can reserve
+some unpartitioned space on the install disks to manually create a
+separate partition for swap later. A swapfile can also be created on a
+separate BTRFS subvolume by using the `btrfs filesystem mkswapfile`
+command.
`compress`::
--
2.39.5
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