Adding to what George says. If doing a 2nd install, have a plan of what to do if it all fails badly and you end up with no working installs (there are posts all of the time for failures, not sure how many dual installs work as people only post when it goes wrong). There are a few places it can go wrong during the install, and if it goes wrong there are a very limited number of experts that can sort out what is salvageable or not. Make sure to have a tested (to boot) livecd (not a installer iso) such that you can boot up and examine the disk. On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 5:28 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:22 PM KarlderLetzte <karlderletzte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> hello everybody, >> >> i need some space on disk for a second installation. >> therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. >> >> here is the disk layout: >> [...] >> >> my question: >> is there a safe way to shrink? >> > The only safe way to shrink is to have a backup. Shrink is I/O intensive and has > a much higher probability of revealing any weaknesses in hardware or software > than normal operations where weaknesses may remain undiscovered for a long > time. Also note that running a filesystem with too little free space slows down > file operations and also increases the probability that weaknesses will be revealed. > > See: <https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-filesystem.html#man-filesystem-resize> > > -- > George N. White III > > _______________________________________________ > 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
