i want to clean install fedora 39 and i dont know how to manually partition can someone here proffesionaly guide me
SSD: 1TB Lexar NM790
Hello @ivanskiii ,
The quickest way is to use the installer custom disk management feature at installation time. It can provide a suggested layout that you can work from.
Just from the high level …
Fedora uses BTRFS, and has generally three subvolumes for the mount points /, /var and /home. This is of course excluding the bootloader area that is and ESP or BIOS Boot partition on it’s own depending on your bios type (legacy or efi). So manually partitioning would involve creating a sufficiently sized ESP or BIOSBoot partition plus a BTRFS partition for the rest. Swap is done in Ram, unless you want hibernate features, which would require a separate swap partition. The BTRFS partition then gets three subvolumes created that get mounted at the aforementioned locations of /, /var, and /home.
Or you could just let this to be done automatically with the installer (with the exception of the swap partition).
i use gigabyte b760m ds3h ddr5 mobo is it efi, and partitioning is have impact in overall performance? newbie sorry
should i use ext4 instead of btrfs?
Are you asking or telling me that it is EFI? Sorry I like to be clear
Depends on your definition of performance. Which is dependant on your use case.
Fedora installs a system that is usable right away, Out Of The Box. It is stable, but you may find you need to tweak it to get maximum performance for your use. This is the beauty of Linux in that even though many of us use it, there are few identical implementations out there.
Depends on if you value speed over data integrity. Ext4 is slightly faster but is not as modern as BTRFS and does not do Copy on Write, and is not being further developed, just maintained. So my suggestion is no to that question.
i mean i asking if my mobo is efi sorry
how to make my fedora 39 clean install get the maximum performance of my rig
I dunno, you would have to look in the BIOS for what it is.How old is the board?
this is the first release of bios update
F2
9.75 MB
Dec 09, 2022
- Checksum : A8B5
- First Launch Release
I would install it first then begin tweaking/adjusting after use. There are many things you can do, so finding what you should do will need more info from you. Like how are you planning on using the performance capability of your hardware? Is it gaming? Is it Multimedia development? Is it for crypto currency farming? I have too many possibilities to see that prevent me from providing any sort of meaningful answer.
Likely EFI then. You can view it in the BIOS screen that you get to at boot, prior to OS load.
like multimedia development and programming things
I suggest you use the defaults for partitions and file system.
Only if you have a performance issue is it worth researching alternatives.
It would be a surprrise to find a motherboard in the last 10 years that was not EFI.
(Becuase Windows demands EFI).
Fedora does not create the /var subvolume for most desktop spins. I am aware that it may do so on “server” and possibly the atomic variants, but not on the great majority of user spins.
This is my F40 Workstation testbed
$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sr0
zram0 [SWAP]
vda
├─vda1 vfat FAT32 A749-A682 579.8M 3% /boot/efi
├─vda2 ext4 1.0 fd2cc447-a9ad-4f36-ba71-2cf8da311c98 604.7M 31% /boot
└─vda3 btrfs fedora 6d956096-a478-47c8-9bc1-2a63c4c32d04 18.6G 31% /home
/
and this is my F39 Workstation
$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sr0
zram0
[SWAP]
vda
├─vda1
│
├─vda2
│ ext4 1.0 cdee63c0-8b0c-4883-b1bf-ade8718f5610 586.9M 33% /boot
└─vda3
btrfs fedora 08ee2868-c517-4f2c-be93-c1faf7850a28 13.5G 26% /home
/
Windows 11 demands only uefi.
Windows 10 may be installed either legacy or uefi.
Windows 11 also requires TPM which is one of the features that is not available under csm mode in the bios.
I have fond memories of putting zfs to use when it was first added to solaris. So far I have not been able to embrace btrfs for various reasons but it is great that many of it’s problems are being addresses as more use it thanks to fedora.
To say ext4 is not being developed does not give the developers the honor they deserve in this very mature project though.
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I’m not throwing shade their way. It was a blog post/response to an issue from the lead dev of ext4 that convinced me I needed to look at alternatives.
Am I the last XFS user here 
Whew, you had me worried there for a moment;-)
The use cases those ext4 improvements target would be completely inappropriate for btrfs. The choice of filesystem, like most computerization choices, mainly revolve around use cases. Writing the whole thing from scratch for every use case is impracticle so chosing from existing components make sense quite often.
Another choice, xfs, is also quite mature (pre-dates the exts) and under massive active development. in `96 the SGI hardware I supported used it. Fedora server uses xfs by default. So if btrfs is deemed inappropriate for a specific use case it is a good one to consider. It is the one I mostly use on both servers and desktops as I still deem btrfs as inappropriate for any of my use cases other than testing and experiments.