This article is for those of you who do not want to install a whole new operating system only to discover some technical details about the default installation like disk layout, packages included, software versions, and so on. Here we are going to review in several sections what is like to have a default installation of Fedora 36 Server using a real not virtual machine!
The kernel is 5.17.9 it detects successfully the Threadripper 1950X AMD and the system is stable (we booted in UEFI mode).
The installation procedure uses default options for all installation setups – Minimal network installation of Fedora 36 Server
Software
With Fedora Server 36 you can have
- linux kernel – 5.17.9 (5.17.9-300.fc36.x86_64)
- System
- linux-firmware – version: 20220509, release: 20220509-132.fc36.
- libc – 2.35 (2.35-9.fc36)
- GNU GCC – 12.1.1 (12.1.1-1.fc36)
- OpenSSL – 3.0.2 (1:3.0.2-5.fc36) and 1.1.1n (1:1.1.1n-1.fc36)
- coreutils – 9.0 (9.0-5.fc36)
- yum – Depricated and replaced with dnf
- dnf – 4.12.0 (4.12.0-1.fc36)
- rsyslog – 8.2204.0 (8.2204.0-1.fc36)
- NetworkManager – 1.38.0 (1:1.38.0-1.fc36)
- Servers
- Apache – 2.4.53 (2.4.53-1.fc36)
- Nginx – 1.20.2 (1:1.20.2-2.fc36)
- MySQL server – 8.0.28 (8.0.28-1.fc36)
- MariaDB server – 10.5.15 (3:10.5.15-1.fc36)
- PostgreSQL – 14.1 (14.1-3.fc36)
- Programming
- PHP – 8.1.6 (8.1.6-1.fc36)
- python – 3.10.4 (3.10.4-1.fc36) and also includes the older 2.7.18 (2.7.18-21.fc36)
- perl – 5.34.1 (4:5.34.1-486.fc36)
- ruby – 3.1.2 (3.1.2-164.fc36)
- OpenJDK – the latest 18 – 18.0.1.0.10 (1:18.0.1.0.10-1.rolling.fc36) and also includes 17.0.3.0.7 (1:17.0.3.0.7-1.fc36), 11.0.15.0.10 (1:11.0.15.0.10-1.fc36) and 8.0.332.b09 (1:1.8.0.332.b09-1.fc36)
- Go – 1.18.2 (1.18.2-1.fc36)
- Rust – 1.60.0 (1.60.0-1.fc36)
- llvm – the latest 14.0.0 (14.0.0-1.fc36) and the old 7.0.1 (7.0.1-7.fc36.4), 8.0.1 (8.0.1-2.fc36), 9.0.1 (9.0.1-15.fc35), 10.0.0 (10.0.0-13.fc35), 11.1.0 (11.1.0-6.fc35), 12.0.1 (12.0.1-2.fc35) and 13.0.1 (13.0.1-1.fc36)
- Subversion – 1.14.1 (1.14.1-11.fc36)
- Git – 2.36.1 (2.36.1-1.fc36)
Note: Not all of the above software comes installed by default. The versions above are valid as of May 2022, these are the minimal versions you get with Fedora Server 36 now and updating it after the initial date may update some of the above packages with newer versions.
Installed packages are 672 occupying 1.8G space:. Note, this is Fedora Server Install, not minimal install. The server install includes the web console – cockpit version 254.
[root@srv ~]# dnf list installed|wc -l 672 [root@srv ~]# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/fedora_fedora-root 15G 1.8G 14G 12% /
Security
- Access control security policies – Selinux in Enforcing mode.
[root@srv ~]# getenforce Enforcing
- Network firewall – Firewalld
[root@srv ~]# firewall-cmd --list-all FedoraServer (active) target: default icmp-block-inversion: no interfaces: enp5s0 sources: services: cockpit dhcpv6-client ssh ports: protocols: forward: no masquerade: no forward-ports: source-ports: icmp-blocks: rich rules:
Storage
Default installation on a single disk, which has only free space on your disk or you reclaimed all the occupied space during installation. Install Fedora Server 35 needs at least 1.8G of free space for the default installation, so if you select a destination disk, which has less than 20G of space you should delete existing partitions to free up space or let Fedora Server 36 installer to do default installation asking you to reclaim the disk space. We used the whole disk for the installation.
By default Fedora Server 36 uses.
- xfs – file system
- lvm – root partition
- efi, boot, root are on separate partitions
- vfat – efi partition.
- zram – loop device, which is a RAM drive that uses compression
Fedora Server 36 installation:
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Disk layout
[root@srv ~]# parted -l /dev/sda Model: ATA KINGSTON SNV425S (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 128GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 630MB 629MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp 2 630MB 1704MB 1074MB xfs 3 1704MB 128GB 126GB lvm
- Mounted Partitions
[root@srv ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 6.3G 1.9M 6.3G 1% /run /dev/mapper/fedora_fedora-root 15G 1.8G 14G 12% / tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /tmp /dev/sda2 1014M 190M 825M 19% /boot /dev/sda1 599M 6.1M 593M 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/0 tmpfs 3.2G 0 3.2G 0% /run/user/1000
Partitions in configuration:
[root@srv ~]# cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Thu May 26 10:19:16 2022 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'. # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info. # # After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to update systemd # units generated from this file. # /dev/mapper/fedora_fedora-root / xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=51b0387c-a337-42a1-9409-c64735cff30e /boot xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=420D-8356 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
- File system layout
[root@srv ~]# ls -al / total 20 dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 235 May 26 13:20 . dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 235 May 26 13:20 .. dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 20 05:04 afs lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 20 05:04 bin -> usr/bin dr-xr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 May 26 13:23 boot drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4320 May 26 15:30 dev drwxr-xr-x. 103 root root 8192 May 26 10:30 etc drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 20 May 26 13:24 home lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Jan 20 05:04 lib -> usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Jan 20 05:04 lib64 -> usr/lib64 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 20 05:04 media drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 20 05:04 mnt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 20 05:04 opt dr-xr-xr-x. 448 root root 0 May 26 13:30 proc dr-xr-x---. 3 root root 129 May 26 15:24 root drwxr-xr-x. 36 root root 1060 May 26 15:24 run lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Jan 20 05:04 sbin -> usr/sbin drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Jan 20 05:04 srv dr-xr-xr-x. 13 root root 0 May 26 10:30 sys drwxrwxrwt. 13 root root 260 May 26 14:51 tmp drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 144 May 26 13:20 usr drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 May 26 10:30 var
- LVM configuration
[root@srv ~]# lvmdiskscan -l WARNING: only considering LVM devices /dev/sda3 [ <117.66 GiB] LVM physical volume 0 LVM physical volume whole disks 1 LVM physical volume [root@srv ~]# pvscan PV /dev/sda3 VG fedora_fedora lvm2 [117.65 GiB / 102.65 GiB free] Total: 1 [117.65 GiB] / in use: 1 [117.65 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@srv ~]# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda3 fedora_fedora lvm2 a-- 117.65g 102.65g [root@srv ~]# pvdisplay -m --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda3 VG Name fedora_fedora PV Size <117.66 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 30119 Free PE 26279 Allocated PE 3840 PV UUID Cf2oaj-EsSW-kYrx-pvcn-RoOM-s6lm-2gt1Xo --- Physical Segments --- Physical extent 0 to 3839: Logical volume /dev/fedora_fedora/root Logical extents 0 to 3839 Physical extent 3840 to 30118: FREE [root@srv ~]# vgs -o +devices,lv_path VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree Devices Path fedora_fedora 1 1 0 wz--n- 117.65g 102.65g /dev/sda3(0) /dev/fedora_fedora/root [root@srv ~]# vgdisplay -v --- Volume group --- VG Name fedora_fedora System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 2 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 117.65 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 30119 Alloc PE / Size 3840 / 15.00 GiB Free PE / Size 26279 / 102.65 GiB VG UUID OoLAeK-AMPU-mlm4-6Xk6-svBu-tkbG-RNFBA7 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/fedora_fedora/root LV Name root VG Name fedora_fedora LV UUID OSbBUI-5B3c-b1Sa-ZcLg-HEBN-1jWi-WmAfpe LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time srv, 2022-05-26 13:19:12 +0300 LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15.00 GiB Current LE 3840 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Physical volumes --- PV Name /dev/sda3 PV UUID Cf2oaj-EsSW-kYrx-pvcn-RoOM-s6lm-2gt1Xo PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 30119 / 26279 [root@srv ~]# lvs --segments LV VG Attr #Str Type SSize root fedora_fedora -wi-ao---- 1 linear 15.00g [root@srv ~]# lvdisplay -m --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/fedora_fedora/root LV Name root VG Name fedora_fedora LV UUID OSbBUI-5B3c-b1Sa-ZcLg-HEBN-1jWi-WmAfpe LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time srv, 2022-05-26 13:19:12 +0300 LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15.00 GiB Current LE 3840 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Segments --- Logical extents 0 to 3839: Type linear Physical volume /dev/sda3 Physical extents 0 to 3839