On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 22:35, Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:

Linux world for quite a while, and this is the first time I ran into
this situation.


Yes.   Other distros let you choose which partition gets reformatted.   My installs of Fedora
have been on systems with Windows installed, where I shrink the Windows partition and
use the free space, or installs to new disks where I don't do any preparation, just run the
installer.   Recently, however, I installed Fedora on an SSD pulled from a Windows system
and hit the "no space" issue.  I just removed the existing partitions with Disks in the Live
System and ran the installer again.  

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George N. White III