helved packard pavilion 500

[Angelo Moreschini]

/dev/sda6   =-->    is the new partition that I recently created with file
system type ext4

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Angelo Moreschini <
mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi David,
>
> I would like to know if the memory configuration must be done (this causes
> me confusion)
>
>    - before starting the installation process,
>    - or be made during the installation process
>    - or, finally, if it can be done in both cases
>
>
> Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ? Yes I am installing Fedora 21
>
> 500 GB is way large enough   Ok what happened - happened (I say now)
> ......
>
> Then I would be making a backup of your disk No matter for the data it is
> nothing on the computer now, I bought few day ago...
>
> I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows partition to
> leave the space you want for your linux installations YES I have a
> bootable gparted
>
>
> It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently partitioned
>
> this is the output of # fdisk -l /dev/sda:
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> disk /dev/sda : 931.5 GiB  1.000.204.886.016 bytes  19.535.525.168 sectors
>
> Units : sectors of 1*512 = 512 bytes
>
> Sector size (logical/physic) 512 bytes / 409 bytes
>
> disklabel type : gpt
>
> Disk identifier : 57CA xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> device                 start                         end
> sectors         size                 type
>
> /dev/sda1              2.048                      2.048
> 2.095.104     1.023   M     Microsoft recovery environment
>
> /dev/sda2        2.097.152               2.097.152
> 737.280       360   M     EFI system
>
> /dev/sda3        2.834.432               2.834.432              262.144
>     128   M     Microsoft reserved
>
> /dev/sda4       30.096.576              3.096.576        921.841.664
> 439.6 G     Microsoft basic data
>
> /dev/sda5   1.931.636.736       1.953.513.471          21.876.736
> 10.4 G     Microsoft basic data
>
> /dev/sda6      924.938.240       1.931.636.735     1.006.698.496
> 480 G      Linux file system
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Thank you very much for your answer
>
> Angelo
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On 12/03/15 21:22, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > I do not see a chance to interact with the program to implement the
>> > required choices.
>> Are you preparing to install Fedora 21 ?
>>
>> 500 GB is way large enough, for example my current installation of the
>> system partitions is: df -h
>>
>> Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda3                  39G   27G  9.4G  75% /
>> /dev/sda1                 2.0G  604M  1.3G  33% /boot
>> /dev/sdc2                  40G   34G  5.9G  86% /var
>>   (I have /var on a separate disk and partition due to the main disk
>> being an SSD; this avoids potential problems with data on /var that is
>> often being re-written. It also contains package mockbuild caches for
>> F19,F20,F21, EL5, EL6, EL7 totaling 4.8GB, and some virtual machines.)
>>
>> /dev/mapper/vg1-home_vg1  643G  643G  713M 100% /home
>>   (could be as small as say 20G; you may also like to mount your windows
>> partition to use data files from it - this would give more space).
>>
>> I have 3577 rpm packages installed. [rpm -qa|wc -l], so this is quite a
>> large install.
>>
>>
>> > And, in the case I need to prepare the partitions in one way
>> > differentthan I already prepared, I do not know how to do this ...
>> It would help if we were able to see how the disk is currently
>> partitioned. You could boot a Fedora rescue image (to text mode), and
>> then list the current layout of the first sata disk by:
>> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>> , and reply to the list with that info.
>>
>> Then I would be making a backup of your disk. If you haven't done much
>> in windows, then this might only be a DVD or 2 worth of space.
>>
>> Next, I would use a bootable gparted CD to resize the main windows
>> partition to leave the space you want for your linux installations. I've
>> done this quite often without trouble, but better to backup then be
>> sorry if it doesn't work.
>>
>> Once there is space to add your new Fedora partitions in, we can provide
>> some info on how to set custom partitioning during Fedora install.
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