Please accommodate a default filesystem of xfs besides ext4 without having to manually partition

Asked by Michael Lueck

Since it is 26.04 LTS season right now....

Please accommodate a default filesystem of xfs besides ext4 without having to manually partition.

I have been standardized on xfs as the file system since 2004. I understand over at the Red Hat camp, they have made it their default file system now.

I seek just a question of "OK, so you want default partitions... but what file system would you prefe for the root file partition?" And that answer could be ext4 / xfs / perhaps others.

With computers shifting away from BIOS access to EFI access to the drives, partitioning has become delicate and challenging. As far as recent LTS releases.... 22.04 was most painful. Many many installations of 22.04 ended up creating not bootable drives. With such complexity of partitions required.... it would be a very nice accommodation to simply ask during the installation which file system is preferred for the root file system, and for ubiquity to take care of the rest of the complexities on its own.

Please / Thank You / Cherry On Top!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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you could report a bug marked as a feature request

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Michael Lueck (mlueck) said :
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Thank you, Andrew. Done:

Please accommodate a default filesystem of xfs besides ext4 without having to manually partition
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/2137363