You are right, but this option is hidden behind three dots in the upper right corner. Pressing these dots you get “storage editor”. The option is rather anonymous.
The installer is new and the layout is quite different from the one I used just a few months back installing F42.
Good to see that my first impression was wrong, but I hope the developers will make the storage editor more visible in a future release.
Truls
Fedora moved on and we get very soon to F45. Please feel free to make the newest tests of the anaconda web-installer and give feedback. It is important, so professionals which spend a lot of time, also get a positive feedback when they do listen to the community.
I am aware that this topic was based on F42 and has a solution. However I specially would like to get a feedback from the OP, if the perception of loosing the control is still there?
I do not think that it is a necro post if I exactly want to call the users which asked for enhancements.
I made the question if they (OP) wold be so kind and test and give feedback, if their perception is still the same as it was with F42 anaconda installer.
P.S.
I posted this topic in this section because of the user which called the moderators. As the user is not TL3+ I can not discuss this in the Mod Section.
in most forums i visit these days a topic is self closed after 10 days of o activity, that one is from well over a year ago
for some reason wasnt closed automatically, but i believe this forum should put a policy similar, after no activity for a determined period of time or after it is marked as solved by the op, it should be locked like 2 days later, it should be left to rest
you might find important the topic and a closure, but if the op never came back, talking about a very old version of fedora, you, just a forum member, not the owner of the thread, all you could have done is what you did here, make your own thread, and let the old dead and forgotten thread rest in peace
not every thread on a forum will get a solution or you will see the person who started it bother returning to see what else was written
people move on, migrate to other activities, distros or move to other moments in life, so if it is a well over a year old, let it decompose in the soil, no necromancy is welcome on any forum
Did you see the link I posted? It makes aware that anaconda implemented new, more user friendly functions.
They announced the test days and I saw this topic while i made some researches.
I link direct to the questioned part, the user specific installation layout which has been criticized.
Feel free to test and give a feedback to the developers in the WIKI. Link above!
Apropos the topic was in Ask.Fedora and not had any mentioning of the Fedora version in the title. It is an affirmation which is not true. I felt responsible to make aware of it.
Exactly. Like to make aware of , that not all necro posts are evil. I do this not to gain clicks on youtube nor linking to an affiliate program. I try to promote a Fedora specific process which is important to give feedback to the hard working professionals.
to me it sounds like you never bothered reading the date or the entire thread before writing anything
the information you shared might or might not be important for the thread
if the thread had no activity for more than a month, it was dead, after well over a yar, you wasted your time, for sure
again, if you have information to share, all you can do after all that time, is make your own post and at best, link that other old one in there, the forum should notify the users about such activity on that old dead thread
again, after so long of no activity form any of the forum members who wrote in it, replied to it, it was dead, forum should have a rule about abandoned posts, threads, close them for inactivity
no, a thread, a post is not evil, but did not belonged to you, and the thing was dead for years, so let it die in peace was the right thing to do, again, you had to make a thread that you can open, control and close to do things right, for the current users of the forum
the information share on a forum can be used by people online, even people who are not members of the forum, if they are going to search for information, it wont be for fedora 42 or a dramatic topic title like loosing control of your fedora installation
in the online world there is a time to be alive, after a year abandoned, it is nolonger available and no one form that time bothered reading any of that, most members there might have not been related to fedora at all anymore
always focus your time and effort on helping with those who need help now, the faster the better for those who need help
Example: there is an Ask thread about an unresolved problem of the F44 release. 6 months later the F44 gets an update to fix it. There is still 7 months for that system to run. Ask Fedora site works as both - the way to look for a help and solution from the topic starter and also to store the information for future references. In such case posting to the thread that the issue was resolved in a recent update is helpful to the people who would land on this page through the search or may help the topic starter who will get a notification.
I think we should set some boundaries, but I also think that we are a little bit overreacting here.
I would propose rather than having a strong formal rule of say “one month” to use the common sense more
Let’s have some informal concept of EOL for Ask Fedora. Like, it probably would be safe to say, that topics for EOL Fedora versions should not be touched anymore.
Have some informal sanity check for what topic we are necroposting to:
In my example above: there was a topic discussion a specific issue, issue was solved in the update, we add information that it was solved - it is helpful.
In the example when the topic has a flame-generating title like “smth is awful and unusable” necroposting the comment it in is not going to help to solve the issue, it is going to refuel the flames. And should not be accepted.
But most importantly, in both cases, the discussion whether or not something is an acceptable necroposting should not happen in that thread. Use flags or DMs or post here in this category.
Otherwise we do the worst kind of necroposting: flooding the people with notifications about an old thread, which have only meta-discussions and no meaningful content at all.
he clearly said that the title didnt said anything about fedora 42, but the thread did, multiple times, when one answers to a post, you are supposed to read not just the title of the said post, especially when is long and, well over a year old and already abandoned, the tone, there is none there, it is clear the comment and the reasoning behind it
since you did not read the original thread, you might disagree, but i read it, replied to it that it was already dead and buried
activity on a developing topic might take time, months, years, but when the topic is requesting help and passed a year and no one bothered doing a bump, that on most forums is prohibited, what you need to do is do a new thread when you have new information, like he had, and should have made a new thread linking the old one
we? dont include me on that one, always speak for yourself, never for others, let each one talk by themselves
old topics that are dead, will remain dead, you can necropost, and they will remain dead, it is a reality of things, when you do necroposting all you do is remember forum members and moderators that a post should have been locked or closed years ago but escaped, at some point one has to learn to let go and move to a new post, preferably controlled by you
in my opinion, a topic should be automatically closed when a reply is marked as a solution, the person that is the original poster should have that control, and in other forums that is the case
when a post asking for help never found it, the forum should close it for no activity after a month, as always, a forum moderator will be able to push such date when required
this is talking strictly about support, things talking about your daily usage, socializing, have no time limit, you reply when you feel like you should, when you have something to share
the time matters, like recent posts talking about people installing fedora 42, fedora 43 on the month of september 2026, people trying to run on kernel 6, that is a whole year old, the goal is leave those old questions and old versions behind
in a couple days f43 will be eol once f45 abandons beta, so we should tell those people to move to f45 or f44 and not waste time supporting f43 or even thinking on f42, we have to let go the past, we should for sure let go the past
There are no rules of the “forum reality” given to us by some all-mighty all-knowing deity which can never be questioned. We set up the rules based on the context and the goals.
There is a general difference between private support request and a forum help request thread.
When you do a private support request it has one goal - help the person to solve their problem.
When you work with the a public forum, there is a number of side goals:
help the person to solve the problem in their case
help other people to learn about the problem
help other people having this problem find this thread
document the workarounds or solutions for that problem for future references
…
Because of that, I am usually oppose to letting people moderate or close their own request threads. Or people asking to delete their forum threads once they don’t need them anymore. Because a forum thread is not the property of a person who started it, it is a collaborative work in a collaborative project.
Especially in our case, any F44 topic can be also a CentOS 10 topic open for next 10 years. And however dead it can be for the person who started it, it can still be valuable for the person who is searching for this issue 5 years later.
And from that vision of the Ask Fedora category, comes a vision of the rules.
It does not only apply to necroposting aspect, but also to thread titles for example.
In a generic discussion I would not mess with a thread title that much because the title of the thread is part of the post and the author should decide for how they would like to open their discussion. Even if I would disagree with some of those choices, I should not put my own words in someone else’s mouth.
But in Ask Fedora I would provide much more power to moderators and encourage them to override the topic title more often so that it helps others with the search.
And yes, some threads should be locked and never revived. But some topics are more like knowledge base articles and then they can get updates.
And I do not see the need to be overprotective about it.
but the information of a post that was complaining because some options were removed in f42 will not be relevant to anyone in 10 years
i complained in my own post about not having the freedom to create and mount swap partitions not long ago, that information will not be relevant to anyone online in like 6 - 7 months when fedora 46 pushes to eol f44
my point here is that focus your effort and energy on the now is better than revive a old post that was forgotten by the op who didnt bothered in trying again months later and see if things improved or not
that can of worms is something i will not touch, i dont visit certain forums thanks to discovering this is not a universal reality and anyone can run over me without much effort and the higher powers will say bs that makes no sense even to them
i still believe things should have a time limit here, in the last hour i saw already a couple more posts being revived and since people dont like me say anything, lets let it be
There’s value in each and every community member’s opinion on how to make the forum better. Especially when we’re excellent to each other while sharing our thoughts. You certainly have expressed your opinion about necroposting in this thread, and moderators and site admins have noted it. Having said that, I can share from personal experience on this forum that automatic closing of inactive threads was a topic discussed at least a couple of times between mods and active forum members, and there was no consensus about it, so auto-closing of inactive topics on Ask Fedora is not activated.
The current approach is that if someone posted on an old thread, usually at least one TL4 or mod notices it and closes the thread, explaining the user the reason behind it.
I think we agree that in the particular case of the topic which triggered this conversation, the reviving of the thread was not really justified.
It didn’t bring new info, it revived the thread with an unhelpful title, and didn’t contribute to the solution, rather just pinged the topic starter. The good part it tried to do is to promote the test day, but we should have other tools for that.
I disagreed with your attempt to generalize and make it into a blanket 1-month-dead rule for all threads on all forums.
