On 4/5/22 15:09, Neal Gompa wrote: > 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. Is this because of lack of demand from paying RHEL customers? > 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. Yeah, you can use a swap file instead. Also LVM thin volumes may be getting shrinking support. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ 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
