On 2022-03-18 7:42 a.m., Angelo Moreschini wrote:
I would like to ask for help about to choose the pertizioni to leave and those to format .. starting from the current situation that I transcribe below:
As outlined a new install will re-format *everything* as a Fedora install over an existing setup will re-format the '/' and everything contained in it. You have only the '/' partition as /dev/sdb3.
Fedora on needs to re-format the '/' and '/var' folders if you have partitioned any other folders onto their own partitions. The other partitions can be preserved across the install.
So, provided you have created a separate *partition* for /home or (for example) /usr/local/sbin, you can do a 'bare-metal' type install of the OS *without* disturbing those partitions. All of your data can carry over to the new install without problem. Note that those partitions do not need to be btrfs OR lvm. I am not sure why you are using lvm in this case, as there is only one drive being used for Fedora.
I am not sure if the live-install version of Fedora includes gparted. If not you can use sfdisk which I am sure is available on the live-install. But since your objective is to re-format things, the easiest route would just be to do an install which re-formats /dev/sdb3, then using that install with gparted, create partitions for the new separate folders you want, and re-install with that in place.
I would suggest that after /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2, which are efi-required that you set up partitions for '/', '/home', '/usr/local', and 'var', plus any other separate partitions which you might want to segregate (or back up separately, such as any business related data/code/documents etc.) (Anything after '/' will be in an extended partition)
Along with /home I use a separate /misc partition, which has all the business-related stuff, the mysql databases, and web-site backup/local runtime, so none of this needs to be re-installed or even touched on a re-install. But it is easier to back up.
I also have a 5G '/usr/local' which has my 'personal' executables, such as games (FlightGear), and the mythtv setup. This partition also gets the java /ice-tea libraries, and calibre.
/var is given its own partition as it gets over-written on a re-install (even then, with mysql/mariadb on a different partition (misc) you need only create a link for '/var/lib/mysql pointing to /misc/mysql to be up and running.
So basically it is a matter of planning for what you know must happen, and protecting what you what to be untouched in a separate partition.
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