If I were you I would get rid off that partion schema and would change it to GUID
partioning !
I don't know if it's able to do without new installation !
In my view/with my understanding:
if you ever get in the position/the need to do an new install with new partioning your
/home on an logical partition is in danger. - maybe I'm wrong ?! -
If you move to GUID partioning you circumvent the barrier of 4 primary partions OR 3 prim.
plus x logical.
You simply get more then 4 primary partitions. - don't know the limit -
And you are able - during a later new install - to leave your /home in an primary
partition untouched and just mount it during an new install. For the other partitions (/,
swap, ...) you are free to format /re-partitioning them without putting /home in danger. -
no need to tell that a user data backup is important anyway -
Hints:
- you need a partition named "Bios Boot" with 1-2 MB size as a first (?)
partition.
- you need (I'm unsure if this still relevant !!!) "inst.gpt" as boot
parameter for your install media
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/se...
- leave some space (10-15 %) on your ssd un-partitioned ( again, don't know if this
still valid)
my config:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 :
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465,8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
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: gpt
Disk identifier: F881C380-A695-4C12-BD2E-73B0D205EFAC
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot
/dev/nvme0n1p2 6144 97662975 97656832 46,6G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 97662976 781258751 683595776 326G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p4 781258752 820322303 39063552 18,6G Linux filesystem
swap is on another disk !
mount|grep ext4 :
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
/dev/nvme0n1p3 on /home/ron/DATA type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
/dev/nvme0n1p4 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
.../DATA
- an extra partition carries movies/mp3/iso's, etc. mostly big data I'm lazy to
move around during new installs.
- extra partition cause it allows to format /home too during new installs, if needed
/home and .../DATA are backup-ed weekly !
a drawback with .../DATA if I format /home:
/home/<user> is created during first gnome login, e.g. I can't mark it to mount
it during install => a need to edit /etc/fstab AFTER first login/user creation, but I
do it anyway to mount /var/tmp as tmpfs to !
cat /etc/fstab :
UUID=... / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=... /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=... swap swap defaults,discard=pages 0 0
#
UUID=.... / /home/ron/DATA ext4 defaults 1 2
#
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=1777 0 0