On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:46 PM Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> wrote: > > On 05/04/2022 18:38, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote: > >> > >>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI - > >>> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we > >>> don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new > >>> installations. > >> > >> This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is > >> no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is > >> running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be > >> something of a headache. > >> > >> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space > >> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some > >> other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting? > > > > In Fedora Linux default partitioning for all but Server, it is > > possible to reconfigure existing systems to UEFI. Fedora Server is > > screwed because they use XFS and you cannot shrink an XFS volume. > > > > Fedora < 33 used ext4 by default, and you can do offline shrink and > > open up space for an ESP. In Fedora >= 33, ext4 is still used for > > /boot and you can resize that. Alternatively, the Btrfs / can be > > resized while the system is running to make room for an ESP. > > I generally do my own partitioning rather than using the > default, and all my systems are ext4 so sounds like it's not > necessarily impossible. > > I'm actually looking at stealing swap on some of them, or > just growing disks for VMs. >
If you have a swap partition, that's the easiest place to steal from, indeed! -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
