Anaconda: expand boot partition fails!
by elisatems from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5RJ2P)
I am trying to install Fedora 34 workstation. Because my partition sizes were chosen for an earlier Linux (SL 6.3), my /boot partition is only 500 MB. Anaconda, I assume rightly, warns that this is less than the minimum recommended size of 512 MB, and even 1 GB is recommended. Of the two ways I've tried to go about resizing the partition, one I reject as unsafe, and the other fails with an error.
1. Automatic partitioning is something I won't do unless there is some way that I can see the partition layout and what Anaconda is about to do with my second disk's filesystem, which must be preserved and needs to be mounted at /usr2. There doesn't seem to be any way to display this information.
2. Custom partitioning fails with "new size same as old size". I've tried shrinking the partition that contains the root filesystem: still fails. I suspect the problem might be in the current partition layout:
sda1: Reserved by the system (105 MB, I assume the MBR is here).
sda2: Windows 10 (144 GB).
sda3: /boot (524 MB)
sda4: Extended Partition, contains...
sda5: / (287 GB)
sda6: swap (69 GB)
The third possibility is to delete all partitions past sda2, but I hesitate to do this without knowing for sure when that would take effect (an "Are you sure?" warning comes up immediately). If it happens immediately and my desired partition layout turns out to be impossible to create for some reason, then my system is toast.
If it only happens after clicking "Begin installation", then I'll try it. Is this correct? Otherwise, what advice can the experts here give me?
Liz
1. Automatic partitioning is something I won't do unless there is some way that I can see the partition layout and what Anaconda is about to do with my second disk's filesystem, which must be preserved and needs to be mounted at /usr2. There doesn't seem to be any way to display this information.
2. Custom partitioning fails with "new size same as old size". I've tried shrinking the partition that contains the root filesystem: still fails. I suspect the problem might be in the current partition layout:
sda1: Reserved by the system (105 MB, I assume the MBR is here).
sda2: Windows 10 (144 GB).
sda3: /boot (524 MB)
sda4: Extended Partition, contains...
sda5: / (287 GB)
sda6: swap (69 GB)
The third possibility is to delete all partitions past sda2, but I hesitate to do this without knowing for sure when that would take effect (an "Are you sure?" warning comes up immediately). If it happens immediately and my desired partition layout turns out to be impossible to create for some reason, then my system is toast.
If it only happens after clicking "Begin installation", then I'll try it. Is this correct? Otherwise, what advice can the experts here give me?
Liz