[GTALUG] Fedora Partitioning

[Scott Sullivan]

/boot or  UEFI system partition ? The latter has to a specific FAT-32 so would need to be separate.

On February 16, 2016 5:53:46 PM EST, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:06:08PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
>>    Updating my desktop to Fedora_23 continues to be a challenge.  
>> 
>>    I figured out how to connect to the network.  Now, it insists on a
>/boot partition separate from /home.  This appears to be a new feature.
>I am trying to upgrade, rather than re-install everything.  I don't
>recall how I managed to do this, but my root partition is /dev/sda1. 
>My other partitions are contained in the extended partition /dev/sda2. 
>
>> 
>>    Does anybody know how I can use the Fedora installer to split
>/dev/sda1 into two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6?. I tried
>deleting /, and creating the two new partitions, and it did not work. 
>Alternately, is there a way to use my root partition for booting?
>> 
>>    I have looked at my partition table using fdisk.  It looks like I
>can delete /dev/sda1 and create the two new partitions sda1 and sda6. 
>Definitely, this destroys my current setup, and my new install had damn
>well better work.  Partitions sda1 and sda6 will be next to each other,
>followed by sda2.  Has anybody done this safely?
>> 
>>    I have a Ubuntu DVD here.  When I "Try Ubuntu", I was able to make
>it claim that my network was connected, but I was unable to ping the
>machine, or connect the browser to http://www.google.com.  Is this how
>Ubuntu behaves in demo mode?   The Ubuntu installer seems to over-write
>boot.  If I play with it, I am forced to re-install something. 
>> 
>>    Fedora_20 was a dead cinch to install.  How did everything get so
>complicated?
>
>If sda2 is your extended partition, then ALL logical partitions (5 and
>up) must be within sda2.
>
>You can have sda1, 3 and 4 be normal primary partitions wherever you
>want on the disk (except inside sda2 of course).
>
>On the other hand it sounds wrong that it would insist on having /boot
>separate.  I can't find anything that says fedora 23 requires such a
>thing, except of you use encrypted / or LVM for /
>
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Scott Sullivan