On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM home user via users < [email protected]> wrote:
> The installation is finally done. > I thank all who tried to help, and for your patience! > > Comment: > As mentioned when I opened this thread, there are no instructions on > using the live install. Instructions on creating the live media are > fine. If the default installation is what is wanted, it's ok. If the > person doing the installation is an experienced sys.admin., and a > non-default installation is wanted, he'll probably complete it without > serious trouble. But I'm not an IT professional, and the default was > not what was best for me. The current default with root and home subvolumes using btrfs avoids the all too common problem where one of 2 separate partitions runs out of space while there is ample free space on the other partition. My job involved large volumes of data (remote sensing images for the world's oceans over decades), so users were always running out of space. Bitrot was also a real problem. If the current Fedora default had been available we could have avoided both issues and spent more time advancing the science instead of fighting with broken systems. I needed good instructions, A lot of effort has gone towards improving the default configuration, (but now new problems for users who don't do btrfs maintenance and end up with broken filesystems). It is assumed that users going outside the defaults have special requirements and understand what they need. Much of the linux documentation is done by volunteers. If your use case matches that of some volunteer who documents their configuration than you might find instructions. If you are trying to create a configuration to avoid issues with legacy configurations there will never be "good instructions" because your are trying to avoid problems that the current default solves (at the cost of new problems due to the need for maintenance). -- George N. White III
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