My parents are fed up with windows 11 slowing down their old HP desktop to near unusable levels. It is so bad that the right click menu can take up to 6 seconds to load. Anyway I created a free 900GB ext4 partition that I want to install to but how do I get the fedora KDE installer to detect that free space (sda6)?
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What did you use to create the partition? Free space that is listed would be space that is not formatted or allocated in the partition table at all, it doesn't really know if that space is available to take or is being used.
Also, having the partition (probably the entire drive actually since you'll need to edit the partition table) mounted while you are trying to edit the partitions can cause issues.