Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-20 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 17:49 +0200, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > so I have to : > create (using gparted) only one big partition (1 TBit) on the HDD > indicate to the process that install fedora the HDD (the partition) > where to install the S.O. > all the rest is done automatically by the installer

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-20 Thread Angelo Moreschini
thank you so I have to : - create (using gparted) only one big partition (1 TBit) on the HDD - indicate to the process that install fedora the HDD (the partition) where to install the S.O. - all the rest is done automatically by the installer that is correct ??? On Fri, Mar 18

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-19 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 19:01, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/19/22 14:48, George N. White III wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 16:14, Samuel Sieb > > wrote: > > > > On 3/19/22 05:18, George N. White III wrote: > > > Or just letting btrfs create over-sized "virtual pa

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/19/22 14:48, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 16:14, Samuel Sieb > wrote: On 3/19/22 05:18, George N. White III wrote: > Or just letting btrfs create over-sized "virtual partitions" and then > allocating > physical space as nee

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-19 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 16:14, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 3/19/22 05:18, George N. White III wrote: > > Or just letting btrfs create over-sized "virtual partitions" and then > > allocating > > physical space as needed. > > btrfs doesn't do that. That's LVM thin-provisioning. > Fresh install of Fedo

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/19/22 05:18, George N. White III wrote: Or just letting btrfs create over-sized "virtual partitions" and then allocating physical space as needed. btrfs doesn't do that. That's LVM thin-provisioning. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedora

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-19 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 13:43, R. G. Newbury wrote: > On 2022-03-18 7:42 a.m., Angelo Moreschini wrote: > > I would like to ask for help about to choose the pertizioni to leave and > > those to format .. starting from the current situation that I transcribe > > below: > > As outlined a new install

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/18/22 07:41, Angelo Moreschini wrote: Hi George, What do you mean by I have already installed fedora on a normal by completely replacing  the HDD .. In that case the HDD was initially presented with a single partition and fedora automatically created the partitions that were needed to sto

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread R. G. Newbury
On 2022-03-18 7:42 a.m., Angelo Moreschini wrote: I would like to ask for help about to choose the pertizioni to leave and those to format .. starting from the current situation that I transcribe below: As outlined a new install will re-format *everything* as a Fedora install over an existing

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi George, What do you mean by by completely replacing the HDD .. In that case the HDD was initially presented with a single partition and fedora automatically created the partitions that were needed to store the operating system. --- In this current case (the computer is a laptop) I see that th

Re: reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 05:54, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > Hi > > upgrading fedora to version 35 I decided to install the OS completely from > zero again, instead of doing the normal upgrade. > > > I have a laptop with two HDDs: / dev / sda (on which windows is installed) > and / dev / sdb (on whic

reinstalling fedora 35

2022-03-18 Thread Angelo Moreschini
Hi upgrading fedora to version 35 I decided to install the OS completely from zero again, instead of doing the normal upgrade. I have a laptop with two HDDs: / dev / sda (on which windows is installed) and / dev / sdb (on which fedora 33 was previously installed). Of course I will install Fedo