On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 10:00 -0400, Robert McBroom via users wrote: > In hindsight had the thought that the problem was the drive was > fully allocated. That's something that catches a lot of people. They know they have umpteen gigs of unused space on their drive, and think they can install Linux to it. But that unused space is part of an existing partition. The installer looks for unallocated space to install to. You *can* use pre-existing partitions, but you have to select them manually, and be ready to deal with the consequences if those partitions aren't empty. If you had a spare empty partition, you can use it with less to worry about, you can even change the filesystem on it if you'd prefer something different. You can do that from the installer (or you used to be able to, I haven't tried all the recent installation options). Or you could use a drive prepping tool ahead of the installer (e.g. gparted). Some tips: A two-drive PC is very useful. Store your data on one (use it for /home), install the operating system on the other. You can unplug your home drive to preserve it during a new installation that wipes out your previous system drive. It's one of the most personal-stress-free ways to do installations. Alternatively, a single-drive PC with a very large harddrive can have the harddrive partitioned leaving a large empty partition for the next release to be installed to: Have the usual boot partitions, a home partition for your files, and two large partitions for the system installations (the current one, and one reserved for the next one). When you install the next one, keep the old one around until you're confident the new one works. Then erase the contents of the old system partition, so it's free for the next installation. I suggest erasing it as soon as you're sure the new install is good. That way you've committed yourself, and you don't have to agonise over erasing it when it's time for the next install in 6 months or a years time. I dislike new installs over the top of prior installs (upgrade installs), there's so many things that come back to bite you on the bum (ages of yum/dnf computations for it to work out what it's going to do, lingering old files, incompatible old software and configurations). I've found it quicker to import old configurations and data from another drive, program by program, and make sure each works. Than try to unscramble the eggs of an over-the-top upgrade of everything that went haywire. I'd hate to try and deal with a scrambled database. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.71.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 28 15:37:28 UTC 2022 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
