Partitioning clean install
From Amahi
Check this guide, it's much more detailed: Fedora_14_install_guide
Partitioning the system drive is important in particular if Greyhole will be used as it is recommended not to include "/" in the greyhole pool (ref. Greyhole_not_on_root).
Here is how to configure the system during Fedora 12 install:
- For simplification, disconnect all drives but the intended system drive, and start the Fedora installation
- During the Fedora installation the user is asked to select the where to install Fedora. Select "Use entire drive", and check "Review and modifiy partition layout"
- Note down the proposed size for lv_swap (for instance, 5760), then delete LVM/VolGroup
- Delete the drive that is marked as physical volume (LVM) (for instance, Drives/dev/sda). DO NOT click "Resize", there is a bug in Fedora installation that may make it crash
- Create a new partition, Mount Point stays empty, File System Type LVM, Size is now whatever you want to use, 30 GB works fine
- Select the new partition and click LVM
- Click Add on the lower right, use File System Type "swap", Logical Volume Name "lv_swap", and enter the size you noted down before
- Click Add again, use File System Type "ext4", Mount Point "/", Logical Volume Name "lv_root". Make sure you use all remaining space
- Back in the main dialog, under Hard Drives there is now a lot of free space. Select the free space, click new, create a partition with file system "ext4", mount point "/var/hda/files", select "fill to maximum allowable size". This partition will then become the landing zone for greyhole, making sure that you don't run into problems when copying large files
- Finish the installation as usual.
- If you want to make use of greyhole pooling, select the partition with "/var/hda/files" to be part of the greyhole pool
- If you want add addtional drives according to Adding a second hard drive to your HDA
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