Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-31 Thread KarlderLetzte
Am Sonntag, dem 30.07.2023 um 11:46 -0300 schrieb George N. White III: > On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM KarlderLetzte > wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > thank you all for the information. > > Unfortunately i do not fully understand, how to manage the > > shrinking. > > For now, i will install the

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-30 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM KarlderLetzte wrote: > Hello everybody, > thank you all for the information. > Unfortunately i do not fully understand, how to manage the shrinking. > For now, i will install the new linux on a external disc, boot and then > copy content from the f38 installation.

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-29 Thread KarlderLetzte
Hello everybody, thank you all for the information. Unfortunately i do not fully understand, how to manage the shrinking. For now, i will install the new linux on a external disc, boot and then copy content from the f38 installation. the old way, long and work intensive (finding the correct partiti

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-28 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:47:50 +0200 KarlderLetzte wrote: > Am Donnerstag, dem 27.07.2023 um 08:27 -0700 schrieb stan via users: > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 > > KarlderLetzte wrote: > > > > > hello everybody, > > > > > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > > > the

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread KarlderLetzte
Am Donnerstag, dem 27.07.2023 um 08:27 -0700 schrieb stan via users: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 > KarlderLetzte wrote: > > > hello everybody, > > > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. > > > > here is the

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:21:50 +0200 KarlderLetzte wrote: > hello everybody, > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. > > here is the disk layout: [snip] > i tried it with gparted, but if i want to shrink, a warning app

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Karlderletzte
Thanks you for the info. Fyi: my laptop use UEFI. Von: Roger Heflin An: Community support for Fedora users Datum: 27.07.2023 12:48:01 Betreff: Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk I got the partition that was last wrong

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
Adding to what George says. If doing a 2nd install, have a plan of what to do if it all fails badly and you end up with no working installs (there are posts all of the time for failures, not sure how many dual installs work as people only post when it goes wrong). There are a few places it can go

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread Roger Heflin
I got the partition that was last wrong. You would have to know the sizes and used of the various mount points and have to know how/if btrfs has enough free and how to re-arrange that free space to be at the end so you can resize. In general adding a 2nd installation after the fact is very compli

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:22 PM KarlderLetzte wrote: > hello everybody, > > i need some space on disk for a second installation. > therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. > > here is the disk layout: > [...] > my question: > is there a safe way to shrink? > > The only safe way t

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Karlderletzte
Hmmh, that is very sad. I never touched something, only installed with the preferred options from the installer... Fyi: I want to make space for a second linux Installation, not an additional partition. Does it mean that i have erase the whole disk, because it is btrfs? ___

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Karlderletzte
Hello, i want to shrink the big partition Nr 6, as small as possible without touching the used space. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: h

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Roger Heflin
The ordering is going to prevent you from shrinking. /boot is last and you likely cannot get enough space out of that one. I am not sure what would happen if you made p2 smaller or if it would even let you create a p7 that is after p2 but before p3. And with all shrinks you must shrink the fs fir

Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 07/26/2023 11:21 AM, KarlderLetzte wrote: i tried it with gparted, but if i want to shrink, a warning appears, that it is possible,to not boot anymore. Which partition do you want to shrink, how big is it and how much do you want to shrink it? __

Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk

2023-07-26 Thread KarlderLetzte
hello everybody, i need some space on disk for a second installation. therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation. here is the disk layout: Label: 'fedora_localhost-live' uuid: ceb296ac-852b-420c-af45- 3cb3d5cb1f9d Total devices 1 FS bytes used 156.97GiB devid1 s