On 4/5/22 15:09, Neal Gompa wrote:
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.
Is this because of lack of demand from paying RHEL customers?
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.
Yeah, you can use a swap file instead. Also LVM thin volumes may be
getting shrinking support.
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)