Re: reinstalling fedora 35

[Angelo Moreschini]

Hi George,
What do you mean by <fedora installing the default (btrfs) "destroys"?
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I have already installed fedora on a normal <desktop> by completely
replacing  the HDD ..
In that case the HDD was initially presented with a single partition and
fedora automatically created the partitions that were needed to store the
operating system.
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In this current case (the computer is a laptop)  I see that the HDD
contains a partition (EFI System Partition) which perhaps should not be
touched because it is used by the <BIOS> ...
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this is the reason that I would like to know how to present (in terms of
partitions) the HDD for fedora installation :
<basically I ask  if I have to leave some of the existing partition>

Thank you ..

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 1:42 PM George N. White III 
wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 05:54, Angelo Moreschini 
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > upgrading fedora to version 35 I decided to install the OS completely
> > from zero again, instead of doing the normal upgrade.
> >
> > I have a laptop with two HDDs: / dev / sda (on which windows is
> > installed) and / dev / sdb (on which fedora 33 was previously installed).
> >
> > Of course I will install Fedora 35 on the ADD / dev / sdb .., but I would
> > like to completely clean up the old installation by formatting the old data
> > using gparted.
>
> A fedora install using the defaults (btrfs) "destroys" the old data.  If
> you are looking for a method that would prevent recovery of sensitive data
> (e.g.), if the laptop is stolen and the sensitive information was not
> encrypted, there are "secure" erase tools..
> > I would like to ask for help about to choose the pertizioni to leave and
> > those to format .. starting from the current situation that I transcribe
> > below:
> > *Partition*
> >
> > *Name*
> >
> > *File System*
> >
> > *Mount Point*
> >
> > *Size*
> >
> > *Used*
> >
> > *Unused*
> >
> > *Flags*
> >
> > */dev/*sdb1
> >
> > EFI System Partition
> >
> > Fat 32
> >
> > */boot/*efi
> >
> > 600.00 MiB
> >
> > 21.58 Mib
> >
> > 578 MiB
> >
> > Boot,esp
> >
> > */dev/*sdb2
> >
> > ext4
> >
> > /boot
> >
> > 1.00 GiB
> >
> > 295.10 MiB
> >
> > 728 MiB
> >
> > */dev/*sdb3
> >
> > lvm2 pv
> >
> > fedora_localhost-live
> >
> > 929.93 GiB
> >
> > 929.93 GiB
> >
> > 0.00 GiB
> >
> > lvm
>
> --
> George N. White III
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