Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:46 PM Tom Hughes <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 05/04/2022 18:38, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel
> > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote:
> >>
> >>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI -
> >>> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall.  As a result, we
> >>> don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new
> >>> installations.
> >>
> >> This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is
> >> no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is
> >> running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be
> >> something of a headache.
> >>
> >> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space
> >> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some
> >> other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting?
> >
> > In Fedora Linux default partitioning for all but Server, it is
> > possible to reconfigure existing systems to UEFI. Fedora Server is
> > screwed because they use XFS and you cannot shrink an XFS volume.
> >
> > Fedora < 33 used ext4 by default, and you can do offline shrink and
> > open up space for an ESP. In Fedora >= 33, ext4 is still used for
> > /boot and you can resize that. Alternatively, the Btrfs / can be
> > resized while the system is running to make room for an ESP.
>
> I generally do my own partitioning rather than using the
> default, and all my systems are ext4 so sounds like it's not
> necessarily impossible.
>
> I'm actually looking at stealing swap on some of them, or
> just growing disks for VMs.
>

If you have a swap partition, that's the easiest place to steal from, indeed!



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