[GUIDE] Fedora 42 Workstation Manual Partition with/without LUKS2 Encryption with Windows 11 Dual Boot Setup

[bruce-wayne]

Hey there fedora user I am here with a guide showing manual partitioned fedora 42 workstation installation which I use on a same nvme running Windows 11(for rare use case only) or any available free space using the new anaconda installer. If you’re using this guide for dual boot I assume that you know how to make a free space.

1. Boot into fedora 42 using live iso using your prefered way of flashing the iso , i’ll be using ventoy

2. Start the installer and select you language and keyboard layout
   

   

3. Here you will be listed with available partition, go to the top right 3 dot
   

   

4. From the 3 dot select Launch storage editor
   

   

5. (Optional) storage editor page will spawn, here in the since i am using a virtual disk on gnome boxes I am having a virtual disk
   

   

6. (Optional) I have to create a new partition table since this is a new disk, this can be skipped on an existing Linux/Win11
   

   

7. (Optional) Select GPT as Partitioning and press Initialize
   

   

8. After creating a partiton table you will get free space
   

   

9. Go to the 3 dot next to the free space row
   

   
   
   
   

10. Here we get option to create a partiton
    

    

11. Here I will be creating EFI Partition first by selecting EFI under Type Drop-down menu
    

    

12. Selecting EFI System partition will auto put /boot/efi on Mount point
    

    
    
    
    

13. For Name (optional) I will give fedora-efi , Size to 1GB and press Create
    

    
    
    
    

14. After creating /boot/efi partition we will create /boot partition by going to the 3 dot of free space
    

    
    
    
    

15. create a /boot partition
    Name(optional) to fedora-boot
    Mount point to /boot
    Type to EXT4
    Size to 1GB
    and press create
    

    

16. Again go to 3 dot and Create partition
    

    

17. Now a partition with
    Name to blank
    Mount point blank
    Type to BTRFS
    Size to available space
    Encryption to LUKS2
    Passphrase to any desired
    tick Store passphrase and press Create don’t know about Encryption options
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

18. In the top-level row select 3dot menu and select Create subvolume
    

    
    
    
    

19. now we will create root partition for that
    Name to root
    Mount point to / and press Create
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    

20. again go to 3dot of top-level and select Create subvolume
    

    

21. Now we will be creating a subvolume for home partiton
    Name to home
    Mount point to /home and press create
    

    

22. this shout be your final Storage layout press Return to Installation
    

    

23. you will get this screen
    

    

24. press continue
    

    

25. click next
    

    

26. Press Install to start Fedora 42 Workstation installation and wait
    

    
    
    
    

Now your Fedora 42 Workstation is installed.

Note:-
for no encryption set Encryption to No Encryption in step 17 and click Create follow the steps from Step 18.

My Disk Layout without encryption installation

[anonnetuser]

I use Fedora KDE and the Blivet GUI, so it looks different, but it reminded me of a question I’ve been meaning to ask: is there any benefit to making the efi and boot partitions larger that the default 512MB and 1GB respectively? Have you made your efi partition to be 1GB for a reason? Thank you!

[bruce-wayne]

efi at 1gb is set for no particular reason, i have made a free space of 102 gb so i thought to even out the partition 1+1+100

[henryng222 (Henry)]

Thank you for sharing this post. I found this very helpful.

[bruce-wayne]

happy to help