Re: UEFI oddity.
On 19 March 2014 19:29, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data There doesn't seem to be much space left for yet another system :-( Well you have two systems on here it looks like. Two /boot partitions, two swaps, and four other partitions that are conceivably root and home, times 2. So maybe mount sda2, sda4, sda8, sda9 and see if you can find an /etc/fstab. I bet you find two, and it'll tell you, along with blkid, how these two systems are assembled. Doing a df -H yields: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda853G 6.8G 44G 14% / devtmpfs4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /dev tmpfs 4.1G 70k 4.1G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 4.1G 1.2M 4.1G 1% /run tmpfs 4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 4.1G 41k 4.1G 1% /tmp /dev/sda9 174G 1.5G 164G 1% /home /dev/sda6 500M 99M 371M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 210M 10M 200M 5% /boot/efi And here it looks like I have ample space for a second system. You have a 2nd system. It's on /dev/sda[1234]. What should I believe and what does Microsoft do on my system? You mean the Microsoft basic data partition type? Yeah, that. So with GPT partition scheme, the partition type isn't a 1 byte value anymore, it's 16 bytes. There are effectively unlimited partitiontypeGUIDs available, yet the parted project decided to use the existing Microsoft basic data partitiontypeGUID. I don't know why but it bends my brain trying to think of a good reason to have done that, when they did pick unique GUIDs for Linux swap, Linux (auto)RAID, and Linux LVM. But then used Microsoft basic data for other which includes rootfs, separate boot, var, LUKS, and home partitions. Madness. Some years ago Rod Smith, creator of gdisk, started setting a unique GUID for Linux general purpose use. Parted doesn't have an upstream release with that patch yet. However Fedora rawhide does carry it and will start using that partitiontypeGUID starting with Fedora 21. Much later than it should be, but at least it's going to happen, finally. [...] And then recently there's an explosion of partitiontypeGUIDs, most of which aren't yet in parted, some of which are in gdisk. I'm not sure where fdisk is at with this as it just recently started supporting gpt partition scheme. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ I've used fdisk (util-linux-2.24.1) recently to change the GPT partition type that Anaconda set for / and /home to the correct Linux Filesystem, it worked without problems; although the fdisk man page doesn't mention this functionality at all (probably the man page hasn't been updated yet). Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Ahmad Samir -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
UEFI oddity.
I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data There doesn't seem to be much space left for yet another system :-( Doing a df -H yields: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda853G 6.8G 44G 14% / devtmpfs4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /dev tmpfs 4.1G 70k 4.1G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 4.1G 1.2M 4.1G 1% /run tmpfs 4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 4.1G 41k 4.1G 1% /tmp /dev/sda9 174G 1.5G 164G 1% /home /dev/sda6 500M 99M 371M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 210M 10M 200M 5% /boot/efi And here it looks like I have ample space for a second system. What should I believe and what does Microsoft do on my system? -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On Mar 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data There doesn't seem to be much space left for yet another system :-( Well you have two systems on here it looks like. Two /boot partitions, two swaps, and four other partitions that are conceivably root and home, times 2. So maybe mount sda2, sda4, sda8, sda9 and see if you can find an /etc/fstab. I bet you find two, and it'll tell you, along with blkid, how these two systems are assembled. Doing a df -H yields: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda853G 6.8G 44G 14% / devtmpfs4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /dev tmpfs 4.1G 70k 4.1G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 4.1G 1.2M 4.1G 1% /run tmpfs 4.1G 0 4.1G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 4.1G 41k 4.1G 1% /tmp /dev/sda9 174G 1.5G 164G 1% /home /dev/sda6 500M 99M 371M 21% /boot /dev/sda5 210M 10M 200M 5% /boot/efi And here it looks like I have ample space for a second system. You have a 2nd system. It's on /dev/sda[1234]. What should I believe and what does Microsoft do on my system? You mean the Microsoft basic data partition type? Yeah, that. So with GPT partition scheme, the partition type isn't a 1 byte value anymore, it's 16 bytes. There are effectively unlimited partitiontypeGUIDs available, yet the parted project decided to use the existing Microsoft basic data partitiontypeGUID. I don't know why but it bends my brain trying to think of a good reason to have done that, when they did pick unique GUIDs for Linux swap, Linux (auto)RAID, and Linux LVM. But then used Microsoft basic data for other which includes rootfs, separate boot, var, LUKS, and home partitions. Madness. Some years ago Rod Smith, creator of gdisk, started setting a unique GUID for Linux general purpose use. Parted doesn't have an upstream release with that patch yet. However Fedora rawhide does carry it and will start using that partitiontypeGUID starting with Fedora 21. Much later than it should be, but at least it's going to happen, finally. And then recently there's an explosion of partitiontypeGUIDs, most of which aren't yet in parted, some of which are in gdisk. I'm not sure where fdisk is at with this as it just recently started supporting gpt partition scheme. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744 508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744 509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data What should I believe and what does Microsoft do on my system? I just took a look at a Lenovo laptop we have here and it's got a similar setup, although not quite what yours looks like. Ours has 4 NTFS partitions, one for the EFI boot stuff (100MB) (looks similar to sda1 or sda5) C: drive (100GB) (sda2?) Q: drive (Lenovo_Recovery 20GB) (sda8?) another partition, maybe empty 8GB I was mistaken that this one has a 500GB drive, it's only 120GB. I think my boss swapped this one out with the one with the bigger drive. I would love to see what Windows is reporting for all those partitions. But I'd almost be willing to bet at least /one/ of those 130+GB partitions is for data so that the system recovery doesn't wipe that data if you need to factory restore it. - -- Mark Haney Network/Systems Administrator Practichem W: (919) 714-8428 Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTKcR/AAoJEM/YzwEAv6e7zKEH/Av4oCyfgbe/p+Os4Xnid89I E52ChnLsgoP7qswr0BcOYVtlQPCLu7P/vSTp+At8a/yOFdzOXgXWolT6NqtB+QmY eQ5H/4Z78KpuglMqxopJRZiCWGPJmYNLhu3Iv9Gf01mYu+dDSjmgKzStKABX76i+ UADctwfyy4GcgTYAJqWL70lVF0Upyf0/xn60uUPZ4ZMsd3ijmqk1cjIT0bawMifi E7EaVa9XoOICcFB9/LCdR9/S9yy7nwAdaCokg1bnOBsYFa9NLbdR5IzziJrcBlpC WE2JLxnqwedvpCgN5IP5+t+4fPBLUVL511EbfifUQDyA4QzKHrvPRIHFk7XyuOg= =9KO8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744 508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744 509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows (whatever the version). What I want to know is how many Windows 'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows. It /looks/ like it's got at least 2 'drives', a Windows drive (C:) and possibly a 'data' drive (D:?). Unless you can tell us what Disk Manager is saying about the NTFS partitions I'm not sure how much help we can give. (Unless, of course, you want to blow the whole thing away and start over, then this is a non-issue.) I don't recall that many NTFS partitions on the Lenovo systems, but I have one handy and will boot it to see. (It's got a 500GB drive, fortunately.) You can also mount the partitions read only and see what's on them. - -- Mark Haney Network/Systems Administrator Practichem W: (919) 714-8428 Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) 3.13.5-202.fc20.x86_64 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTKb+KAAoJEM/YzwEAv6e7xqsH/jYK/VMRfuc5wdRSmuX7E96h qLwWtsWzu/Dodml+3o9Y/sFpHG0X293L2ybxmnEgSBYAQsuxjaIoFS1cDrZSHfux WcPty0+/lp6ClZO0rQb36j1sUnWrUYR4ssBx4VaMKrIcpY/SI1qp9doeEKJSDZ9X TGWbyHqDMbc6WwvCX0ElhAkF6FsbTOK39D3f7BPVsfFe7hlVYO8SdhWEh/oiIb24 UFef8z3Xidl6gAxDbUfOM/deEruSiWMAt8V5AUwwNuyYdMBRjWbw8EYyiGp7CnHM 50LArZ8MwFgOdJvzff/rpR4B3rvZ4WySEeH4XDQShku1J6LVkQvXC5BjALJmRNk= =Belr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On Mar 19, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Mark Haney mha...@practichem.com wrote: Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows (whatever the version). What I want to know is how many Windows 'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows. blkid will show label and file system, mounting them and using 'tree -x -L 2 mountp' will give some idea of what they contain. (Unless, of course, you want to blow the whole thing away and start over, then this is a non-issue.) It's possible one of the partitions contains the hardware tester. It could be on the EFI System partition as a standalone firmware driven utility, or it could be on another partition or even integrated into the manufacturer's software restore utility. It's worth keeping around somewhere in particular if it's not downloadable, which actually is irritatingly common. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4222111744 508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744 509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows (whatever the version). What I want to know is how many Windows 'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows. It /looks/ like it's got at least 2 'drives', a Windows drive (C:) and possibly a 'data' drive (D:?). Unless you can tell us what Disk Manager is saying about the NTFS partitions I'm not sure how much help we can give. There are no windows drives on the disk. First thing I did after getting the PC was to format the disk. (Unless, of course, you want to blow the whole thing away and start over, then this is a non-issue.) I don't recall that many NTFS partitions on the Lenovo systems, but I have one handy and will boot it to see. (It's got a 500GB drive, fortunately.) You can also mount the partitions read only and see what's on them. Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is linux drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. I'll have to wait, right now it's running a lengthy benchmark. -- Erik -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On 03/19/2014 07:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/14 11:35, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I have recently built a fedora 20 system using UEFI. And by and large it seems to be OK. I took care to allocate enough space on disk to allow for another system. It's all done on a Lenovo L430 with a 500GB large harddisk. I intent to use it for testing purposes and the UEFI based system is my first try of this type of BIOS. I was very surprised to see the output from fdisk: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 4547BE5B-EB5B-4756-8225-C346783B73AA Device Start End Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1026047 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda2 1026048205826047 97.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda3 205826048222111743 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda4 222111744 508831743 136.7G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5508831744 509241343 200M EFI System /dev/sda6509241344 510265343 500M Microsoft basic data /dev/sda7510265344526551039 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda852655104063140863950G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda9631408640976773119 164.7G Microsoft basic data Typically, these systems come with a restore partition for Windows (whatever the version). What I want to know is how many Windows 'drives' are listed when you boot it into Windows. It /looks/ like it's got at least 2 'drives', a Windows drive (C:) and possibly a 'data' drive (D:?). Unless you can tell us what Disk Manager is saying about the NTFS partitions I'm not sure how much help we can give. There are no windows drives on the disk. First thing I did after getting the PC was to format the disk. (Unless, of course, you want to blow the whole thing away and start over, then this is a non-issue.) I don't recall that many NTFS partitions on the Lenovo systems, but I have one handy and will boot it to see. (It's got a 500GB drive, fortunately.) You can also mount the partitions read only and see what's on them. Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is linux drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. I'll have to wait, right now it's running a lengthy benchmark. Would it be considered bad to just blow the drive away and use it with an ext4 file format? Or is that just not possible? just wondering if I should happen to run across one of these kinds of laptops... EGO II -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On 3/19/2014 7:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 19/03/14 17:02, Mark Haney wrote: There are no windows drives on the disk. First thing I did after getting the PC was to format the disk. Format or fdisk the drive? Format does just that. Cleans sthe partition(s) Fdisk removes the partition(s). Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is linux drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. I'll have to wait, right now it's running a lengthy benchmark. -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On Mar 19, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote: First thing I did after getting the PC was to format the disk. With what? How? Will do. It may be left over from previous testing in which case it is linux drives. I thought though that anaconda had removed them. You have to be really explicit with anaconda to get it to remove existing data. Through the default/guided/automatic path, it's only possible through the Reclaim Space dialog by clicking either Delete All. Or individually clicking on partitions and marking them for deletion. In customize/Manual Partitioning, it's less obvious because usually these other partitions appear in a collapsed submenu titled either with the name of the prior Fedora version; or Unknown. So you have to open that up and individually delete each item (there is a short cut in the resulting dialog to delete all, which doesn't always delete everything under Unknown). Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: UEFI oddity.
On Mar 19, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be considered bad to just blow the drive away and use it with an ext4 file format? Or is that just not possible? just wondering if I should happen to run across one of these kinds of laptops… Not bad and it is possible. A single partition ext4 install is only possible via customized/Manual Partitioning. And in that case right now you also need to manually create a ~ 200MB EFI System Partition mounted at /boot/efi. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
