On Wed, 2021-09-01 at 01:23 -0400, Douglas McGarrett wrote: > 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. I suppose the "only 1.2 gig available" is confusing. That's some unallocated part of the drive. Everything that you prepared and formatted its ignoring as already for use by something else (it doesn't know they're blank, it's just looking at existing partitions as not free for it to use). I haven't played with the latest installation yet, but the prior install routines didn't need you to prepare a drive first, and I'd expect the current one to be the same. You can go back to Gparted, erase your partitions, and make the drive "empty," then install Fedora. If you like to specify partition sizes yourself, you should get the chance to do so during the Fedora install. Or, it should be possible to pick prepared partitions, but you might have to hunt around a bit to find where manual partitioning is hidden. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
