thank you

so I have to :

that is correct ???

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:16 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote:
On 3/18/22 07:41, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> Hi George,
> What do you mean by <fedora installing the default (btrfs) "destroys"?
> ---
> I have already installed fedora on a normal <desktop> by completely
> replacing  the HDD ..
> In that case the HDD was initially presented with a single partition and
> fedora automatically created the partitions that were needed to store
> the operating system.
> ---
> In this current case (the computer is a laptop)  I see that the HDD
> contains a partition (EFI System Partition) which perhaps should not be
> touched because it is used by the <BIOS> ...
> ---
> this is the reason that I would like to know how to present (in terms of
> partitions) the HDD for fedora installation :
> <basically I ask  if I have to leave some of the existing partition>

If you are starting from scratch, you don't need to preserve anything.
A clean install will create a new EFI partition if there isn't one
already.  You only need to keep the old one if there is another OS on
the computer that is also using it.
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