I need to know what command I can use to delete everything and start again with Fedora 44
You can use dd for this: dd (Unix) - Wikipedia
Just make sure to point to the correct storage !
Is it a 2nd hardrive or the only one on your computer?
i want to try re-installing Fedora 44 but I just have one hard drive which is 1 terabyte.
I bought the complete USB Fedora 44 from Amazon and I just accidentally deleted everything on the USB so I have to buy it again. I’m trying but this is impossible?
Apparently there is not enough space on my boot file to update Fedora 45, I already have Fedora 45 but it’s the update to it that I am trying to fix?
Purchasing fedora is NOT required!!
It may be simpler for someone who does not have internet access to purchase an already loaded usb device but Fedora is 100% free to download.
Once you have it downloaded the iso can be written to the usb device and used for booting and installing.
Users can even install fedora media writer on their windows machine and use that to download the ISO and write it to the usb device.
Why didn’t I think of that??? Too cool. Thank you so much. So, I can go to Fedora use the same USB that I accidentally erased and download Fedora 44 from Fedoraproject.org. mmh
Thank you so much!
All I need to do now is figure out how to make my boot file bigger so it will install the update to Fedora 45
A working Fedoray system usually comes with MediaWriter which makes it easy to download and transfer to USB any Fedora install image.
The Fedora installer offers the option to use the entire disk, which will whipe out every pre-existing data on the disk.
As I understood from the other topic is, that you had Timeshift installed and got some snapshots on /boot.
/boot is not a file it is a partition. Partitions you can change with several tools like KDE-Partition Manager or Gparted.
However It is not needed to change the size of /boot as long as you not install software which uses this space (as Timeshift did).
Being that you’re new to Linux, I would suggest sticking with the latest stable 44 release, instead of the testing 45 (using whatever desktop environment you like - I think you had KDE installed previously??).
It’s fine to use system backup tools (like timeshift), just don’t have it writing the backups to your boot partition (as you found out). When installing Fedora, it generally uses BTRFS as it’s file system. You can use BTRFS Assistant app to do system backups instead. Just change the default amount of backups to something more reasonable than the defaults so it doesn’t fill your drive up with backups.
And as others suggested, you don’t need to buy the Fedora distro (or any other distro for that matter). As long as you have a USB, simply download the ISO image and use the default distro app to write the ISO to the USB (in Fedora’s case it’s Media Writer). If you were still on Windows, you can use any number of apps - Balena etcher, Rufus, Ventoy.