On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, at 8:29 PM, Andre Robatino wrote: > I attempted to do a reinstall using "Reinstall Fedora" and got the > error "No suitable free space found for automatic partitioning for > /boot (ext4): requested 2 GiB, largest free space 1 GiB". Presumably > this is due to the size bump in /boot for new installs. If I want I can > go to "Mount Point Assignment" and manually make it use the existing 1 > GiB partition for /boot, and on my existing old hardware that would be > fine. But before I go ahead and do that, is there an easy way (for a > non-expert in partitioning like me) to simultaneously bump /boot to 2 > GiB and preserve /home at the same time, just to avoid this issue for > future reinstalls?
The installer doesn't know how to shrink btrfs, so extra space can't be created for a new 2 GiB /boot. It is possible to shrink the Btrfs with gparted, leaving unused space at the end of the Btrfs, which the installer can then use for a new 2 GiB /boot. If the Btrfs volume isn't on LUKS/dm-crypt, it might be possible to create a /boot mountpoint on the existing Btrfs, as well as assign existing "home" subvolume to /home mountpoint, and create a new "root" subvolume mounted at / for the installation. This does work with gtk-ui I haven't tested it with web-ui. GRUB has long supported Btrfs. But some folks use systemd-boot, or use other architectures which may have different requirements for boot. Still another option is clean install, which requires a backup and restore. A current backup is necessary for all options, to mitigate risk. -- Chris Murphy -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
