On 6/25/19 12:42 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 9:25 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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