On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 6:40 AM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1) How is your drive/system laid out regarding your paritions? > > > SSDs are getting cheaper, but not cheap enough for mass storage for me so > currently: > 500GB M.2 NVMe boot/system drive > * /boot > * /boot/efi > * / and /var subvolumes sharing remaining space > * /home 3TB spinning disk > > I like having /var as a separate volume because when it was EXT4 I could do a > reinstall and format / without losing data in /var. I setup using subvolumes > this time before I realized that was no longer possible. I guess it could > make snapshots easier though... >
The installer definitely let's you reuse an existing subvolume for the /home mount point (unless it's a snapshot [1]). I'm not certain about reusing a subvolume or snapshot for /var because it contains the RPM database which is inextricably linked to most everything in '/' except for /home. There isn't a very elegant way of dealing with this in the general case, let alone the specifics of snapshotting and rollbacks. The installer will not let you reuse a file system for '/' however. There is an exception for Btrfs, which is it'll reuse an existing Btrfs, but it requires a new subvolume (created by the installer) for '/' mount point. That way it's possible to do a clean install while reusing a subvolume for /home. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885102 -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-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/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
