On 9/1/21 4:58 AM, Tim via users wrote:
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.
I may not have indicated that I already have two systems on the new-type
disk.
I want to be sure to keep them. The "new" old-type disk is known to the
existing
Linux as /dev/sda. So I just went to gparted again and erased whatever
was on
sda, and gparted made me have a partition, so I made the whole drive a
partition and formatted it as fat32, which is probably the way it came from
the factory. Is this OK? I'll wait for an answer before proceeding.
Thanx--doug
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