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 37 Server using a real not virtual machine!
The kernel is 6.0.11 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 37 Server
Software
With Fedora Server 37 you can have
- linux kernel – 6.0.11 (6.0.11-300.fc37.x86_64)
- System
- linux-firmware – version: 20221109, release: 20221109-144.fc37.
- libc – 2.36 (2.36-8.fc37)
- GNU GCC – 12.2.1 (12.2.1-4.fc37)
- OpenSSL – 3.0.5 (1:3.0.5-3.fc37) and 1.1.1q (1:1.1.1q-2.fc37)
- coreutils – 9.1 (9.1-6.fc37)
- yum – Depricated and replaced with dnf
- dnf – 4.14.0 (4.14.0-1.fc37)
- rsyslog – 8.2204.0 (8.2204.0-3.fc37)
- NetworkManager – 1.40.6 (1:1.40.6-1.fc37)
- Servers
- Apache – 2.4.54 (2.4.54-5.fc37)
- Nginx – 1.22.1 (1:1.22.1-1.fc37)
- MySQL server – 8.0.31 (8.0.31-1.fc37)
- MariaDB server – 10.5.18 (3:10.5.18-1.fc37)
- PostgreSQL – 14.3 (14.3-8.fc37)
- Programming
- PHP – 8.1.13 (8.1.13-1.fc37)
- python – The default is 3.11.0 (3.11.0-1.fc37) and many more available – 3.10.8 (3.10.8-3.fc37), 3.12.0 (3.12.0~a2-1.fc37), 3.9.15 (3.9.15-3.fc37), 3.8.15 (3.8.15-2.fc37), 3.7.15 (3.7.15-2.fc37), 3.6.15 (3.6.15-14.fc37) and also includes the older 2.7.18 (2.7.18-25.fc37)
- perl – 5.36.0 (4:5.36.0-492.fc37)
- ruby – 3.1.3 (3.1.3-172.fc37)
- OpenJDK – the latest 19 – 19.0.1.0.10 (1:19.0.1.0.10-2.rolling.fc37) and also includes 1:17.0.5.0.8 (1:17.0.5.0.8-1.fc37), 11.0.17.0.8 (1:11.0.17.0.8-1.fc37) and 1:1.8.0.352 (1:1.8.0.352.b08-2.fc37)
- Go – 1.19.3 (1.19.3-2.fc37)
- Rust – 1.65.0 (1.65.0-1.fc37)
- llvm – the latest 15.0.4 (15.0.4-1.fc37), 14.0.0 (14.0.0-1.fc36) and the old 7.0.1 (7.0.1-7.fc36.4), 8.0.1 (8.0.1-3.fc37), 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 (13.0.1-2.fc37)
- Subversion – 1.14.2 (1.14.2-8.fc37)
- Git – 2.38.1 (2.38.1-1.fc37)
Note: Not all of the above software comes installed by default. The versions above are valid as of December 2022, these are the minimum versions you get with Fedora Server 37 now, and updating it after the initial date may update some of the above packages with newer versions.
Installed packages are 679 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 679 [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: yes 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 37 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 37 installer to do default installation asking you to reclaim the disk space. We used the whole disk for the installation.
By default Fedora Server 37 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 37 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-root 15G 1.8G 14G 12% / tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /tmp /dev/sda2 960M 208M 753M 22% /boot /dev/sda1 599M 7.1M 592M 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 Mon Dec 5 13:16:34 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-root / xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=dc198f0b-4bf0-46d4-ae66-a0c80552899a /boot xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=F2C4-8CA9 /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 Dec 5 13:18 . dr-xr-xr-x. 18 root root 235 Dec 5 13:18 .. dr-xr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 9 13:27 afs lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Aug 9 13:27 bin -> usr/bin dr-xr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:21 boot drwxr-xr-x. 21 root root 4380 Dec 8 13:01 dev drwxr-xr-x. 103 root root 8192 Dec 5 13:24 etc drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 20 Dec 5 13:21 home lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 Aug 9 13:27 lib -> usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Aug 9 13:27 lib64 -> usr/lib64 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 9 13:27 media drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 9 13:27 mnt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 9 13:27 opt dr-xr-xr-x. 464 root root 0 Dec 5 13:24 proc dr-xr-x---. 2 root root 114 Dec 5 13:22 root drwxr-xr-x. 36 root root 1060 Dec 5 13:24 run lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 8 Aug 9 13:27 sbin -> usr/sbin drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Aug 9 13:27 srv dr-xr-xr-x. 13 root root 0 Dec 5 13:24 sys drwxrwxrwt. 13 root root 260 Dec 8 10:11 tmp drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 144 Dec 5 13:18 usr drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Dec 5 13:24 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 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 lvm2 a-- 117.65g 102.65g [root@srv ~]# pvdisplay -m --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda3 VG Name 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 Fowm7s-FxXr-0nm9-4ifG-N0WC-8geo-s7JleY --- Physical Segments --- Physical extent 0 to 3839: Logical volume /dev/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 1 1 0 wz--n- 117.65g 102.65g /dev/sda3(0) /dev/fedora/root [root@srv ~]# vgdisplay -v --- Volume group --- VG Name 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 fxIlLq-jZnd-y9Xn-fCw9-4AnY-SjVv-FH4Hoa --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/fedora/root LV Name root VG Name fedora LV UUID bJ7OtT-0YhC-Ei8c-A1Do-3JPP-c8zl-90Ehw1 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time srv, 2022-12-05 13:16:27 +0000 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 Fowm7s-FxXr-0nm9-4ifG-N0WC-8geo-s7JleY PV Status allocatable Total PE / Free PE 30119 / 26279 [root@srv ~]# lvs --segments LV VG Attr #Str Type SSize root fedora -wi-ao---- 1 linear 15.00g [root@srv ~]# lvdisplay -m --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/fedora/root LV Name root VG Name fedora LV UUID bJ7OtT-0YhC-Ei8c-A1Do-3JPP-c8zl-90Ehw1 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time srv, 2022-12-05 13:16:27 +0000 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