I decided to use the default partitioining options on the install and I see that swap and the ext4 /home are in a LVM partition.
What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to add another drive and extend /home onto it.
In fact if I have to pull the drivew to rescue data from /home, I then have to contend dealing with LVM and what if it is the same label as the lvm on the system I try to mount it on.
Seems to me, in my limited knowledge, that I should continue as I have for some time and just create the swap and home partitions directly.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I decided to use the default partitioining options on the install and I see that swap and the ext4 /home are in a LVM partition.
What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to add another drive and extend /home onto it.
I think it buys complexity and that's about it.
In fact if I have to pull the drivew to rescue data from /home, I then have to contend dealing with LVM and what if it is the same label as the lvm on the system I try to mount it on.
Seems to me, in my limited knowledge, that I should continue as I have for some time and just create the swap and home partitions directly.
You can go to custom partitioning, and in the popup menu of partition schemes pick 'standard partitions' and then click the blue "link" text to create the layout automatically using that scheme. So you get automatic partitioning, but with standard partitions instead of LVM.
On 6/25/19 12:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
I decided to use the default partitioining options on the install and I see that swap and the ext4 /home are in a LVM partition.
What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to add another drive and extend /home onto it.
I think it buys complexity and that's about it.
For a notebook, yes. For a desktop with multiple drives maybe not. But when did last have a desktop computer? I have been using notebooks since the GRID 1750.
In fact if I have to pull the drivew to rescue data from /home, I then have to contend dealing with LVM and what if it is the same label as the lvm on the system I try to mount it on.
Seems to me, in my limited knowledge, that I should continue as I have for some time and just create the swap and home partitions directly.
You can go to custom partitioning, and in the popup menu of partition schemes pick 'standard partitions' and then click the blue "link" text to create the layout automatically using that scheme. So you get automatic partitioning, but with standard partitions instead of LVM.
Oh, that was easy.
Now to decide if I should update the BIOS on this 'new' notebook. BIOS date of 2014 and a number of security updates since then.
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 23:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
What does LVM buy me on a notebook? It is not like I am going to add another drive and extend /home onto it.
I don't get it, either. I agree with the other problems, especially if you have to unplug and read it on another system. I've never seen any really good reason to use it, anywhere.
I'm not sure if it gives you an easy way to have more partitions beyond the usual drive handling limits (e.g. one for this install, keep the prior, space for the next release).
Does it make things any easier if you want an encrypted drive?
I take it back, sorta. One thing I do like LVM for is virtual machines. I prefer it over either raw or qcow2 files, especially if the VM is Windows. For whatever reason NTFS on top of another file system is really suboptimal, but giving it an LV to use, and it's basically just pass through to the drive.
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