Suggestion: Simplify file system selection on install

General suggestion: I wanted to use XFS instead of BTRFS at time of install, but found the whole process frustating:

  1. It wasn’t in the main flow, and hidden in a 3 dot overflow in a very non-obvious location. OK not the worse and I can live with it, BUT
  2. This only takes me to an area where I have 0 partitions to start with and I can’t just pick XFS. Now I have to somehow know the default 3-4 partitions for fedora and create them all completely by hand. Why can’t I just pick some default template here and XFS to have them create? Instead I have to:

a) create /boot/efi, and remember it’s about 600mb and FAT32
b) create /boot, remember to use 2gb, and ext4 (I think? or can this be xfs also?)
c) create /, and set to XFS instead of BTRFS
d) create /home, and also set to XFS

Just incredibly finnicky/fussy and manual vs just letting me pick XFS instead of BTRFS for a setup. Maybe I’m missing something but I hate having to go through this on every install.

The anaconda folks may see your post here, but if you raise a bug ticket for this improvement they will see your suggestion. See Bugzilla - Fedora Project Wiki

When I do partition a server I lime to have a sufficiently large /var as a separate partition.

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I think the quickest way to get them feedback is upstream here:

@barryascott, I do not recommend creating bugs on RH Bugzilla, when avoidable.

Bugs on bugzilla are fine and expected, but if one can file them upstream directly, that’s preferred.