On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 01:23 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote: > Hello. I'm a potential new user, but I'm having trouble with the > install. > I have Windows and Leap on one of the new on-board drives, and I > have added /dev/sda, a new Samsung 465 GiB ssd (ordinary type) to > the system. I formatted it to ext4 using GParted, and it's empty > except > for 8.38 GiB at the beginning that GParted must have added. When I try > to add theFedora system to this, it says there is only 1.2 GiB > available. > I went back and ran GParted on it again, but it still comes up the same > way. > What am I doing wrong? Or is the drive defective? GParted doesn't > complain about it. > Thans for your assistance--doug > Hi, Based on information you provided and how I understand it. Anaconda (Fedora's installer) doesn't see new disk as free space, which is expected when you said you formated it with ext4 filesystem. To be able to use it, you would need to use custom option to set it as mount point and re-format it, or use reclaim space option, which will allow you to delete that partition and re-create a partition(s) layout as suggested by the installer. Installer would only see that as free space if there is no partitions with filesystems on it. Even if there is a filesystem with "no data" on it, it's still not seen as free space. You can find more details in [1]. Regards, Branko [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f34/install-guide/install/Installing_Using_Anaconda/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
