On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 3:06 PM Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/5/22 13:38, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Tom Hughes via devel
> <devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/04/2022 15:52, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>
>>> * There is no migration story from Legacy BIOS to UEFI -
>>> repartitioning effectively mandates a reinstall. As a result, we
>>> don’t drop support for existing Legacy BIOS systems yet, just new
>>> installations.
>>
>> This is where I have a problem with this, the fact that there is
>> no upgrade path - virtually my entire installed base of Fedora is
>> running legacy BIOS and not being able to upgrade them will be
>> something of a headache.
>>
>> Is it actually true though? You need to be able to find some space
>> for an EFI partition but assuming that can be done is there some
>> other reason you can't migrate from BIOS to UEFI booting?
>>
>
> In Fedora Linux default partitioning for all but Server, it is
> possible to reconfigure existing systems to UEFI. Fedora Server is
> screwed because they use XFS and you cannot shrink an XFS volume.
Time to get the XFS developers to support shrinking?
That's not likely to happen anytime soon. That said, up until Fedora
Linux 33, a swap partition was created by default too. You can shrink
that and reuse some of that space to create an ESP outside of the
LVM+XFS setup. As I was reminded earlier in this thread, swap is a
good chopping block to work with.
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