Re: Strange behavior with F40 server iso and VM

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> Am 13.10.2024 um 03:12 schrieb Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> I'm using the Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-40-1.14.iso which I downloaded from the Fedora repository.  After I booted the system I ran df and got:
> 
> pgaltieri@localhost:~$ df
> Filesystem              1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/fedora-root  15663104 1763300  13899804  12% /
> ...
> 
> as opposed to the MATE-F40 install
> 
> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/nvme0n1p3 418378752 4283924 412513740   2% /
> devtmpfs            4096       0      4096   0% /dev
> ...

Fedora Server is a SERVER configuration, Mate is a DESKTOP configuration. Both use a different rational for storage configuration.

Server follows the good old Unix principle to strictly separate user data from system data, and furthermore separates different user data from each other. The goal is to minimize the effects of possible file system problems. Workstation gave up this principle some times ago in favor of less effort for system configuration and to make it easier for less experienced users.


> On 10/12/24 17:30, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> On 10/12/24 5:17 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>   this is an issue that has me frustrated.  I created a VM under VMware and VirtualBox and allocated 400GB as the disk size.  I installed the F40 server iso on the VM, and it showed the disk size as 400GB, and the install went fine.  However, when I booted the VM and looked at the disk size it was 15GB.  This happened on both VMware and VirtualBox.  I created another VM and installed MATE-F40 iso and when I check the disk size there it was in fact 400GB.  So for shits and grins I tried running VMware on Windows 11 and created a F40-server VM there and it too showed the disk size as 15GB.  Why is there this limit?  Is there anyway to make it the size I want?
>> 
>> Which iso did you use?
>> What are you looking at to see that size?

And regarding VMware, you specify your (maximum) virtual disk size, and independently of this size, the Fedora Server installation only allocate a maximum of 15 GB for system purposes. This size has proven to be sufficient for all possible types of use cases. When installing additional software, applications or users, you allocate the required file systems from this free space. 

The details are described in the server documentation. Feel free to ask for more details if anything remains unclear. I’m the guy who wrote most of Server documentation. It’s always good to get feedback what information is missing.




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