I'm currently doing a test install of Silverblue 29 beta 1.5 in a virtual machine. In the test day documentation I ran across these manual partitioning instructions: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/installation-guide/#manual-partition. Since it's a virtual machine, I opted for a custom partitioning so I could look at what the automatic partitioner was generating.
It turns out that it is generating an LVM partitioning with swap, a /boot, a /, and a /home. But the manual partitioning setup uses /var/home! So who's right - Anaconda's automatic partitioner or the manual partitioning directions? Or does the Silverblue 29 installer do the symlinking for me? I changed /home to /var/home. Was I wrong?
swap
/boot
/
/home
/var/home
I ran through the F29 Silverblue Beta installer, too and selected custom partitioning. I chose to layout /boot/, /home, and /. The end result looked like this:
/boot/
$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/vda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xf4aac0ec Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/vda1 * 2048 1026047 1024000 500M 83 Linux /dev/vda2 1026048 41943039 40916992 19.5G 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-root: 14.5 GiB, 15577645056 bytes, 30425088 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-home: 5 GiB, 5368709120 bytes, 10485760 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes $ sudo lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert home fedora -wi-ao---- 5.00g root fedora -wi-ao---- <14.51g $ sudo findmnt /home TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE OPTIONS /var/home /dev/mapper/fedora-home ext4 rw,relatime,seclabel
I'm not 100% certain, but it looks like the installer learned that Silverblue systems need to mount /home at /var/home.
I think the current instructions are still valid; you'll just circumvent the installer logic to map /home to /var/home.
I'm closing this issue - if the problem persists, please open a bug report in https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues.
Metadata Update from @tpopela: - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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