Re: Installing F13

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On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
> On 05/29/2010 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
> >    
> >> I would like to install F13 x64
> >>
> >> I have seen the size difference in the partitions.
> >> Question: Do I have to reformat my F12 installation or will upgrade
> >> resize the boot partition?
> >>      
> > Is your current F12 installation 32-bit or 64-bit? If it's 32-bit, I
> > think you'll need to do a complete install, not an upgrade. In that case
> > you can change the partitioning. For an upgrade, you can't. Of course
> > you can always change it beforehand using gparted if you're worried
> > about size.
> >
> >    
> >> I did not select a seperate Home partition when I installed F12. I
> >> realize now I should have.
> >>      
> > Definitely. Best back up /home and create a new partition once and for
> > all. While you're at it, make sure /boot is at least 500MB in case you
> > want to use preupgrade in the future.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >    
> Ok I am confused.
> 
> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything 
> except format

Supposedly /boot cannot be ext4 as it's not yet supported by Grub, so I
don't know how you got that to work.

> Sda2 lvm2 not mounted and 931 gig. but is there and active and showing a 
> warning
> The warning is Logical Volume management not yet supported.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_7.html#SEC68 I don't recall having done this (I'm not a big fan of LVM for home use) but apparently the idea is to change LVM's notional size of the filesystem and then resize the partition with gparted. Simply moving the partition around shouldn't be a problem. You might want to post this specific question as separate topic and get other opinions before doing it.

> 
> 
> It is also showing all I can do is reformat.
> 
> Do I change the file system resulting in a lost disk?

No, you run gparted from a rescue disk, i.e. reboot with the original
installation disk in the drive and choose rescue mode. You can then run
gparted. If for some reason gparted isn't there, you can download an iso
image of a standalone linux system that basically just runs gparted. See
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

poc

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