[GTALUG] Fedora Partitioning

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Feb 21 13:15:28 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:00:47PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    I read up on Fedora and /boot partitions.  There was a lot of stuff on MBR versus GPT partitions.  From the Fedora DVD installation, I logged in as root and I tried "fdisk -l".  This revealed that my 2TB drive with my OS and working partitions, is "Disklabel type: dos".  My 500GB Archive drive is "Disklabel type: dos".  My new 4TB backup drive is "Disklabel type: gpt".
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>    I unplugged my 4TB drive, and the install went fine.  

Oh right, since 2TB is the limit for dos partitions.

>    Install done, I rebooted, I got the network working and I went "dnf -y update". With the update done, my network stopped working.  The network tool claimed it was connecting.  From dmesg, I could see that it could see my router's MAC address.  Eventually, I set my IPv4 method to "Automatic".  "Link-local" was what worked when I did the install.
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>    I will post all of this to my website in a couple of days.

So having a gpt disk in the system confuses the fedora installer?
How convinient.

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Len Sorensen


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