On 2024-12-01 23.34, Felix Miata wrote:
Robin Laing composed on 2024-12-01 22:08 (UTC-0700):
On upgrade to Fedora 41, I got stuck due to lack of space on "/"
partition. I had an unused partition that was more than double the size
of the present root partition.
I rsyncd the data across to the new partition
sudo rsync -avPAHXx --numeric-ids --exclude="lost+found"
-exclude="home" --exclude="boot" / /mnt/TEMP/
The above line was recommended on a web page.
I made sure the partition was in the crypttab file.
I did a test mount of the drive using fstab into the /mnt/TEMP directory.
I changed the setting in /etc/fstab to the new partition and rebooted.
Failed.
I did other stuff and finally changed /etc/default/grub to point to the
new partition and remade the grub.cfg file.
System boots into basic.target and freezes.
This is still in f39.
There must be an "official" procedure to do this.
Somewhere there is a setting that points to the present root drive that
I cannot change.
If there is no official way, I do know that there is a suggestion to
just change the UUID's for the drives which I think is not the best option.
Try including rd.hostonly=0 on kernel cmdline in bootloader. If that doesn't get
you going, try it plus rd.auto=1 or rd.auto along with it.
Tried it. Not much luck. Thanks for the suggestions though.
Kept getting stuck at dev-disk-by\x2duuid uuid(of the boot disk) Left
it for over an hour and nothing changed.
Got back to a booting system and then tried changing the UUIDs and that
failed as well.
Finally reverted everything back to the original setting and decided to
just move the var directory to its own partition. Wasn't easy either.
Issues with moving var due to Selinux.
Finally got a working system and started the upgrade to F41 but the
screen went blank during the process and the HDD light is flashing like
crazy. Not going to touch anything until the morning as I suspect is
has to do with both xorg and nvidia.
From what I learned today, with Selinux and luks encryption, there is
no easy way to do changes on a system. Even systemd flagged me on
changes to the fstab file.
When I get some spare time, I will just install and configure a new
drive. If I had started that at the beginning, I would have completed
by now. Still learned many things though.
Robin
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