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 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
