When you have a notebook install, you are locked into the drive you have
and whatever you did on the partitioning, you are stuck with, for the
most part. No adding a new drive with additional partitions.
I originally deleted the default LVM setup and then created the ext4
partitions you see in the original post. The Fedora installer created
those partitions. It was my oversight in not making swap larger in the
1st place; I was controling the install knobs.
Once you make /home to use up all the remaining space on your drive, you
are stuck. Other than getting a bigger SSD and using dd to move /,
/boot and /home to the new drive where you made a larger swap.
Or follow instructions to resize /home smaller.
Or create a swap file. I have plenty of space in the / partition for
making a swap file.
On 7/27/19 10:24 AM, sixpack13 wrote:
If I were you I would get rid off that partion schema and would change it to GUID partioning !
I don't know if it's able to do without new installation !
In my view/with my understanding:
if you ever get in the position/the need to do an new install with new partioning your /home on an logical partition is in danger. - maybe I'm wrong ?! -
If you move to GUID partioning you circumvent the barrier of 4 primary partions OR 3 prim. plus x logical.
You simply get more then 4 primary partitions. - don't know the limit -
And you are able - during a later new install - to leave your /home in an primary partition untouched and just mount it during an new install. For the other partitions (/, swap, ...) you are free to format /re-partitioning them without putting /home in danger. - no need to tell that a user data backup is important anyway -
Hints:
- you need a partition named "Bios Boot" with 1-2 MB size as a first (?) partition.
- you need (I'm unsure if this still relevant !!!) "inst.gpt" as boot parameter for your install media
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/sect-boot-options-advanced.html
- leave some space (10-15 %) on your ssd un-partitioned ( again, don't know if this still valid)
my config:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 :
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F881C380-A695-4C12-BD2E-73B0D205EFAC
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
/dev/nvme0n1p2 6144 97662975 97656832 46,6G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 97662976 781258751 683595776 326G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p4 781258752 820322303 39063552 18,6G Linux filesystem
swap is on another disk !
mount|grep ext4 :
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /home/ron/DATA type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
/dev/nvme0n1p4 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
.../DATA
- an extra partition carries movies/mp3/iso's, etc. mostly big data I'm lazy to move around during new installs.
- extra partition cause it allows to format /home too during new installs, if needed
/home and .../DATA are backup-ed weekly !
a drawback with .../DATA if I format /home:
/home/<user> is created during first gnome login, e.g. I can't mark it to mount it during install => a need to edit /etc/fstab AFTER first login/user creation, but I do it anyway to mount /var/tmp as tmpfs to !
cat /etc/fstab :
UUID=... / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=... /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=... swap swap defaults,discard=pages 0 0
#
UUID=.... / /home/ron/DATA ext4 defaults 1 2
#
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0
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