On 05/29/2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: > >> On 05/29/2010 11:40 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:22 -0700, Michael Miles wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I would like to install F13 x64 >>>> >>>> I have seen the size difference in the partitions. >>>> Question: Do I have to reformat my F12 installation or will upgrade >>>> resize the boot partition? >>>> >>>> >>> Is your current F12 installation 32-bit or 64-bit? If it's 32-bit, I >>> think you'll need to do a complete install, not an upgrade. In that case >>> you can change the partitioning. For an upgrade, you can't. Of course >>> you can always change it beforehand using gparted if you're worried >>> about size. >>> >>> >>> >>>> I did not select a seperate Home partition when I installed F12. I >>>> realize now I should have. >>>> >>>> >>> Definitely. Best back up /home and create a new partition once and for >>> all. While you're at it, make sure /boot is at least 500MB in case you >>> want to use preupgrade in the future. >>> >>> poc >>> >>> >>> >> Ok I am confused. >> >> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything >> except format >> > Supposedly /boot cannot be ext4 as it's not yet supported by Grub, so I > don't know how you got that to work. > > >> Sda2 lvm2 not mounted and 931 gig. but is there and active and showing a >> warning >> The warning is Logical Volume management not yet supported. >> > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_7.html#SEC68 I > don't recall having done this (I'm not a big fan of LVM for home use) but > apparently the idea is to change LVM's notional size of the filesystem and > then resize the partition with gparted. Simply moving the partition around > shouldn't be a problem. You might want to post this specific question as > separate topic and get other opinions before doing it. > > >> >> It is also showing all I can do is reformat. >> >> Do I change the file system resulting in a lost disk? >> > No, you run gparted from a rescue disk, i.e. reboot with the original > installation disk in the drive and choose rescue mode. You can then run > gparted. If for some reason gparted isn't there, you can download an iso > image of a standalone linux system that basically just runs gparted. See > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > > poc > > Ok, Thank you very much for your time.
/Boot is ext4 I am not sure why either Michael -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
