How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal

scottalanmiller

@NashBrydges said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Is Fedora ext4 by default? Can you choose XFS during install?

XFS, EXT4, BtrFS... you can configure basically anything during the install.

NashBrydges

@scottalanmiller said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@NashBrydges said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Is Fedora ext4 by default? Can you choose XFS during install?

XFS, EXT4, BtrFS... you can configure basically anything during the install.

Thanks.

JaredBusch

Yes, by default it is ext4 if you let it partition as shown.

StrongBad

Why ext4 as a default? Feels like they are moving backwards there. They made the move to XFS from ext4 already.

FATeknollogee

@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch Let's say you want to use this VM as a file server.
Is it better to create 2 disks (1 for o/s + 1 for storage) or just one big ass disk?

As this example showed, I had a 127GB disk because I let Hyper-V Server 2016 use its default.

Fedora only took 17GB of it. 2GB for swap and 15GB for root.

The rest is sitting there waiting to be used however you want.

So all you have to do is make the space usable.
#create a logical volume named data
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data fedora

#format it to ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/fedora/data

#make a directory to mount it
mkdir /data

#mount it
mount /dev/fedora/data /data
Obviously you will want to have this mounted on reboot, so add it to /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

#add this
/dev/fedora/data /data                    ext4    defaults        1 2

edit: If I have 2 virtual disks (1 for o/s + 1 for data). Anyone have a simple "how to do this" guide on the 2nd disk: /dev/xvdb or /dev/sdb ? (I read some guides on the 'net, thy all seem long & winded)

JaredBusch

@StrongBad said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Why ext4 as a default? Feels like they are moving backwards there. They made the move to XFS from ext4 already.

No idea, but what you are seeing in this thread is what you get from a 127GB vhdx and let Fedora do automatic partitioning as shown above (edit: copied below)
https://i.imgur.com/zZlenx9.png

travisdh1

@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch Let's say you want to use this VM as a file server.
Is it better to create 2 disks (1 for o/s + 1 for storage) or just one big ass disk?

As this example showed, I had a 127GB disk because I let Hyper-V Server 2016 use its default.

Fedora only took 17GB of it. 2GB for swap and 15GB for root.

The rest is sitting there waiting to be used however you want.

So all you have to do is make the space usable.
#create a logical volume named data
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data fedora

#format it to ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/fedora/data

#make a directory to mount it
mkdir /data

#mount it
mount /dev/fedora/data /data
Obviously you will want to have this mounted on reboot, so add it to /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

#add this
/dev/fedora/data /data                    ext4    defaults        1 2
Anyone have a simple "how to do this" guide on /dev/xvdb or /dev/sdb ? (I read some guides on the 'net, thy all seem long & winded)

Off the top of my head even, let's go!

pvcreate /dev/xvdb
vgcreate vgname /dev/xvdb
lvcreate -n 'lvname' vgname -l 100%FREE
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
mount /dev/vgname/lvname /mountpoint

If you add an xfs volume to fstab, it's recommended to make the last two options (dump and fsck) zero. Yeah, xfs can really speed up boot times if you're switching from another file system that needs to run an fsck at boot.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11302/travis-hershberger-linux-lvm-storage

FATeknollogee

@travisdh1 Thx, will check out your video.

black3dynamite

@StrongBad said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Why ext4 as a default? Feels like they are moving backwards there. They made the move to XFS from ext4 already.

Fedora Server uses EXT4 (/boot) and XFS (/root). Fedora Workstation uses EXT4.

black3dynamite

@JaredBusch

guest-agents installs packages of open-vm-tools and qemu-guest-agent.

Typing this command will so those packages:
dnf groupinfo "guest-agents"

JaredBusch

@black3dynamite said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch

guest-agents installs packages of open-vm-tools and qemu-guest-agent.

Typing this command will so those packages:
dnf groupinfo "guest-agents"

yeah finally back to this. so yup, no Hyper-v agents. Fixed that. Let's see what Hyper-V thinks of it.

[root@jrd-nc ~]# dnf -y install hyperv-daemons
Last metadata expiration check: 2:26:36 ago on Fri Apr 28 09:18:21 2017.
Dependencies resolved.
===============================================================================================================
 Package                          Arch             Version                             Repository         Size
===============================================================================================================
Installing:
 hyperv-daemons                   x86_64           0-0.17.20170105git.fc25             updates           8.7 k
 hyperv-daemons-license           noarch           0-0.17.20170105git.fc25             updates            16 k
 hypervfcopyd                     x86_64           0-0.17.20170105git.fc25             updates            15 k
 hypervkvpd                       x86_64           0-0.17.20170105git.fc25             updates            23 k
 hypervvssd                       x86_64           0-0.17.20170105git.fc25             updates            15 k

JaredBusch

Hyper-V still shows degraded, but it now shows the IP address in the console.
0_1493399297907_upload-d0dc1ab1-e951-4599-9b3d-79191b511196
0_1493399322234_upload-09cbd3d9-b1c3-45ee-b506-7b934d86ed1f

JaredBusch

This is a Fedora 25 VM without the hyperv-daemon

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0_1493399401331_upload-605ba1b5-5fd2-4842-a0a7-cbbd5c678254

JaredBusch

first post updated with a note to install hyperv-daemons if running under Hyper-V

FATeknollogee

@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Hyper-V still shows degraded, but it now shows the IP address in the console.

I installed 2 "minimal install" vm's on Win Serv 2016 (Fedora 25 & CentOS).
On the Fedora vm, I checked the "guest agen" add-on but not on the CentOS.
Under Status, they both show ok, I didn't have to add hyperv-daemons

JaredBusch

@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Hyper-V still shows degraded, but it now shows the IP address in the console.

I installed 2 "minimal install" vm's on Win Serv 2016 (Fedora 25 & CentOS).
On the Fedora vm, I checked the "guest agen" add-on but not on the CentOS.
Under Status, they both show ok, I didn't have to add hyperv-daemons

You mean under heartbeat on the summary tab? Yeah. it always does.
Or you mean on the networkig tab? well there it show ok, but not any IP info until you install the hyper-v daemons and reboot.

FATeknollogee

@JaredBusch Networking tab. In that case, let me go ahead & install the daemons

stacksofplates

@travisdh1 said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch Let's say you want to use this VM as a file server.
Is it better to create 2 disks (1 for o/s + 1 for storage) or just one big ass disk?

As this example showed, I had a 127GB disk because I let Hyper-V Server 2016 use its default.

Fedora only took 17GB of it. 2GB for swap and 15GB for root.

The rest is sitting there waiting to be used however you want.

So all you have to do is make the space usable.
#create a logical volume named data
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data fedora

#format it to ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/fedora/data

#make a directory to mount it
mkdir /data

#mount it
mount /dev/fedora/data /data
Obviously you will want to have this mounted on reboot, so add it to /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

#add this
/dev/fedora/data /data                    ext4    defaults        1 2
Anyone have a simple "how to do this" guide on /dev/xvdb or /dev/sdb ? (I read some guides on the 'net, thy all seem long & winded)
Off the top of my head even, let's go!
pvcreate /dev/xvdb
vgcreate vgname /dev/xvdb
lvcreate -n 'lvname' vgname -l 100%FREE
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
mount /dev/vgname/lvname /mountpoint
If you add an xfs volume to fstab, it's recommended to make the last two options (dump and fsck) zero. Yeah, xfs can really speed up boot times if you're switching from another file system that needs to run an fsck at boot.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11302/travis-hershberger-linux-lvm-storage

If you're doing -l 100%FREE it doesn't necessarily matter. But if you are ever going to have more than one volume, I'd do vgcreate -s 1G (or more depending on volume size). 4M chunks become annoying to manage, especially when you can do vgcreate -l 1 vs vgcreate -l $((1024000 / 4096)).

travisdh1

@stacksofplates said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@travisdh1 said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch Let's say you want to use this VM as a file server.
Is it better to create 2 disks (1 for o/s + 1 for storage) or just one big ass disk?

As this example showed, I had a 127GB disk because I let Hyper-V Server 2016 use its default.

Fedora only took 17GB of it. 2GB for swap and 15GB for root.

The rest is sitting there waiting to be used however you want.

So all you have to do is make the space usable.
#create a logical volume named data
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data fedora

#format it to ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/fedora/data

#make a directory to mount it
mkdir /data

#mount it
mount /dev/fedora/data /data
Obviously you will want to have this mounted on reboot, so add it to /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

#add this
/dev/fedora/data /data                    ext4    defaults        1 2
Anyone have a simple "how to do this" guide on /dev/xvdb or /dev/sdb ? (I read some guides on the 'net, thy all seem long & winded)
Off the top of my head even, let's go!
pvcreate /dev/xvdb
vgcreate vgname /dev/xvdb
lvcreate -n 'lvname' vgname -l 100%FREE
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
mount /dev/vgname/lvname /mountpoint
If you add an xfs volume to fstab, it's recommended to make the last two options (dump and fsck) zero. Yeah, xfs can really speed up boot times if you're switching from another file system that needs to run an fsck at boot.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11302/travis-hershberger-linux-lvm-storage
If you're doing -l 100%FREE it doesn't necessarily matter. But if you are ever going to have more than one volume, I'd do vgcreate -s 1G (or more depending on volume size). 4M chunks become annoying to manage, especially when you can do vgcreate -l 1 vs vgcreate -l $((1024000 / 4096)).

I have to ask, how do the 4M chunks become annoying to manage?

The -l 100%FREE should really be a lower percentage anyway, so you can take a snapshot on the volume when you want to run a backup.

stacksofplates

@travisdh1 said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@stacksofplates said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@travisdh1 said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@JaredBusch said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:
@FATeknollogee said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@JaredBusch Let's say you want to use this VM as a file server.
Is it better to create 2 disks (1 for o/s + 1 for storage) or just one big ass disk?

As this example showed, I had a 127GB disk because I let Hyper-V Server 2016 use its default.

Fedora only took 17GB of it. 2GB for swap and 15GB for root.

The rest is sitting there waiting to be used however you want.

So all you have to do is make the space usable.
#create a logical volume named data
lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n data fedora

#format it to ext4
mkfs.ext4 /dev/fedora/data

#make a directory to mount it
mkdir /data

#mount it
mount /dev/fedora/data /data
Obviously you will want to have this mounted on reboot, so add it to /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab

#add this
/dev/fedora/data /data                    ext4    defaults        1 2
Anyone have a simple "how to do this" guide on /dev/xvdb or /dev/sdb ? (I read some guides on the 'net, thy all seem long & winded)
Off the top of my head even, let's go!
pvcreate /dev/xvdb
vgcreate vgname /dev/xvdb
lvcreate -n 'lvname' vgname -l 100%FREE
mkfs.xfs /dev/vgname/lvname
mount /dev/vgname/lvname /mountpoint
If you add an xfs volume to fstab, it's recommended to make the last two options (dump and fsck) zero. Yeah, xfs can really speed up boot times if you're switching from another file system that needs to run an fsck at boot.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11302/travis-hershberger-linux-lvm-storage
If you're doing -l 100%FREE it doesn't necessarily matter. But if you are ever going to have more than one volume, I'd do vgcreate -s 1G (or more depending on volume size). 4M chunks become annoying to manage, especially when you can do vgcreate -l 1 vs vgcreate -l $((1024000 / 4096)).
I have to ask, how do the 4M chunks become annoying to manage?

The -l 100%FREE should really be a lower percentage anyway, so you can take a snapshot on the volume when you want to run a backup.

You get both performance gains from using larger chunks and you don't need to do math when you grow your volume. If you only grow your volume to what you need at the time, it's much easier to just type the size in GB vs the number of extents / 4M.