reinstalling fedora 35

[Angelo Moreschini]

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.

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]

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

[Angelo Moreschini]

Hi George,
What do you mean by <fedora installing the default (btrfs) "destroys"?
---
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.
---
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> ...
---
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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[Samuel Sieb]

On 3/18/22 07:41, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> Hi George,
> What do you mean by <fedora installing the default (btrfs) "destroys"?
>
> 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.
>
> 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> ...
>
> 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>

If you are starting from scratch, you don't need to preserve anything. 
A clean install will create a new EFI partition if there isn't one 
already.  You only need to keep the old one if there is another OS on 
the computer that is also using it.

[Angelo Moreschini]

thank you

so I have to :

- create (using gparted) only one big partition (1 TBit) on the HDD

- indicate to the process that install fedora  the HDD (the partition)
   where to install the S.O.

- all the rest is done automatically by the installer

that is correct ???

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:16 PM Samuel Sieb  wrote:
> On 3/18/22 07:41, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> > Hi George,
> > What do you mean by <fedora installing the default (btrfs) "destroys"?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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> ...
> >
> > 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>
>
> If you are starting from scratch, you don't need to preserve anything.
> A clean install will create a new EFI partition if there isn't one
> already.  You only need to keep the old one if there is another OS on
> the computer that is also using it.
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[Tim]

On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 17:49 +0200, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> so I have to :
> create (using gparted) only one big partition (1 TBit) on the HDD
> indicate to the process that install fedora  the HDD (the partition)
> where to install the S.O.
> all the rest is done automatically by the installer

In general, you do not create partitions before running the installer.

The installer creates the partitions it's going to use from the free
space on the drive.  If it sees pre-existing partitions, they're not
considered free space.

If you are installing Linux as the one and only thing on a hard drive,
either give it a blank unpartitioned drive, or let the installer use
the entire drive you select.

Looking at your first message you have two drives:
Windows already on /dev/sda
Linux to go on /dev/sdb

Let the installer use the inter /dev/sdb drive.  You don't have to
prepare it first, although you can erase existing partitions on it if
you want to.  Don't bother formatting it.