On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 15:03 -0430, 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. > It iis my impresssion that the abovve is no longer true. > > 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 >
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