Advice needed: Partitioning Fedora across multiple SSDs and separating system files from user data

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as I said I am here asking for advice and help, that’s the idea I had in mind but If you guys have anything better please tell me. which you guys kinda did. please read my last reply to the topic.

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When you have windows on one drive then attach another with linux the bios still controls which drive is booting. The user then must use either the bios boot menu (usually available with the function keys F8 thru F12 depending upon the particular bios and hardware) or set the boot order within the bios setup menu in order to boot from the additional drive attached.

The bios sees the bootable drives but has a set boot order to select the first available within that list and often windows is the first.

Not a contradiction. An upgrade leaves the configs and upgrades the software. An install replaces everything related to the OS including the configs (and by default also wipes out the users data.

My comment was that by design the intent of upgrades is to never wipe out the users data but allow software upgrade. An install normally wipes out everything but it is possible to keep the users data (which many wish to do) by doing a custom installation instead of the automatic partitioning.

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thanks for clarifying :heart::heart:. The boot issue is kinda specific since there are 2 windows boot partition that are booting the same system (don’t ask me how, I kinda broke it but its still boots LMAO) I have Fedora in my flash drive, I’ll see if I can fix it from the live boot.

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I kept trying to get into Fedora today, there is a problem with the boot manager, I tried to install another boot manager (rEFInd) through Fedora live and it didn’t work. When I open the Select boot device menu I have 3 entries that all boot Windows. I have a small question though, will I be able to access the files in my old fedora installation (Portable HDD) when I install then Install the new one ??

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I have often installed linux on USB3 drives (without encryption), and never had problems with access to files from linux installed on system drives, even when using different distros.

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Mine is encrypted, I will give it a try anyways…