You normally don’t need that. If zram ends up being too small for you, you can create as many swap files in your root partition as you like. a separate swap partition is normally waste of disk space. also swap is swap and never mounted to /swap.
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Hello everyone.
In Blivet GUI installer I just set /dev/sda2 as /boot/efi and /dev/sda6 as /.
But it says You must create a new filesystem no your root device
I didn’t format anything, and decided to just reinstall as it was before. Should i format my / root partition and then try it? Is it supposed to have any label on it?
Installers should not touch existing filesystems because people often have partitions with data they need to preserve (and it all too easy to mistakenly select the wrong partition due differences in labelling/numbering across OS’s).
You can only install to “free” space, which is where shrinking a partition is useful. Normally, the installer creates the new filesystem in the free space you have selected. If you have a broken linux installation and Gparted can’t shrink the partition to make enough space you can use the Live Linux to delete the directories you don’t want to keep. Note that shrinking won’t work on a corrupt filesystem,
Fedora will need to format a fresh / by default. That doesn’t mean you can’t keep your old / partition and mount it under a different mount point, but whatever the / partition is will get formatted and if that’s an existing partition, you will lose the data that is on it.
There are 2 partitions that will need to be formatted or created new with an install.
/boot and / always need to be formatted by default, and since with a default install of fedora the system uses btrfs and puts both / and /home on the btrfs volume it will need to create both those subvolumes new. You should have a backup of /home and then do the reinstall with proper formatting of partitions being used or delete the existing partitions and install into the free space remaining.
One caveat. If you are installing as dual boot with windows, the simplest is to allow the installer to use the existing uefi partition and share it without formatting. Fedora does that very nicely. It sometimes is problematic if using 2 efi partitions on the same drive since the bios can only boot from one of those.