Re: reinstalling fedora 35

[George N. White III]

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