On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 16:44, hd via luv-main <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have been a Linux hobbyist for a while (?10 years?), and have been > using Mandriva and Open Suse. > Due to software availability and support I am looking to move to Fedora. > I have the install disk for Fedora WS 35. > I am having trouble in the Fedora setup with setting up my disk > structure. I have not used LVM previously, and suspect that is what I > don't understand or cannot control. > > My current opensuse system has 5 disk drives, mounted at /, /home, > /srv/dbStore with the others in my primary user name area. / is BtrFS, > with the others all being XFS. (Until trying to install Fedora, I was > not aware BtrFS included a logical volume manager) > > In the Fedora install I want to reproduce my existing disk structure, > and retain existing data on all disks except / (and efi, swap and biosboot) > (I generally have two boot options - and share my file structure > between both. I then do a clean operating system install every 12 > months. I'm happy to think about changing this procedure and my > constraints - but not now ...) > > I have been trying multiple Fedora installation options and > cannot find a way to mount the disks without reformatting them and > converting to LVM. I have not seen XFS mentioned as an option in the > installation. > > I have done searches and found some sample Fedora installs, but I cannot > find anything about using existing disks without reformatting. I am > particularly keen to retain my current /home. > > Can anyone provide me with some simple instructions on doing a Fedora > workstation install specifying existing disks? > > Many thanks > > Hugh
Hi Hugh Your system architecture sounds unlike anything that I would be happy with so I'm unsure if that's a good starting place for me to be offering advice :) That said, I can offer some suggestions in an attempt to be helpful. You wrote: > I'm happy to think about changing this procedure and my > constraints - but not now so I'm restricting my suggestions accordingly so as to avoid triggering a "not now" reaction :) 1) Don't try to mount the existing drives during the install. It should be possible to ignore all the XFS drives, do whatever Fedora considers to be a default install, reboot into that system, then manually configure mounting of your XFS drives. You could even temporarily disconnect the XFS drives until the install is complete, for safety and simplicity. 2) Maybe this is not the time to be worrying about LVM. It can be very useful, I use it on all my systems. But its purpose is to carve up large storage devices into flexible chunks, which by the sound of things is not what you need right now. So applying the guideline of "not now", you could specify a non-LVM install. 3) You haven't given any details why you need to use 5 drives. When the time is right, look for ways to reduce that number. 4) I stopped using Fedora after about 5 years because there was too much compulsory churn to new untested features, and moved to Debian. That was about 10 years ago. Cheers David _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
