Changes/GPTforAllByDefault

Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

This is a follow-up for the Fedora 37 change which made GPT the default partition table for x86_64. This change proposes switching to GPT for the other supported architectures.

Owner

• Name: Vojtech Trefny
• Email: vtrefny AT redhat.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
• Last updated: 2024-12-03
• [Announced]
• [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> Discussion thread]
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Scope

• Proposal owners: Change Blivet to prefer GPT as default partition table on all architectures.

• Other developers: No work from other developers will be needed.

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N

Dependencies

There are no dependencies for this change, all work will be done in Blivet, the library that Anaconda uses for storage configuration.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: Revert the change in upstream
• Contingency deadline: Final Freeze
• Blocks release? Yes

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)