On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:06 PM Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/5/22 13:38, 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. > > Time to get the XFS developers to support shrinking? > That's not likely to happen anytime soon. That said, up until Fedora Linux 33, a swap partition was created by default too. You can shrink that and reuse some of that space to create an ESP outside of the LVM+XFS setup. As I was reminded earlier in this thread, swap is a good chopping block to work with. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
