restrictions on second operating system in LVM environment

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 08:03:59 +0200
"Gary J. Kirkpatrick" <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu 14 with the LVM option.  Is there any reason I can not
> install a second OS on the same hard disk, or any special considerations?
> For example, does the second OS also require th LVM option?

If you want to install within the same LVM volume group, you need to
shrink the size of your existing installation and create a new logical
volume for the new installation, as Ubuntu by default uses all
available space for LVs.

If you have free space on the disk, you can install there and not even
install the LVM tools - except if you want to access data from the
installation that is on LVM. In that case you will need LVM to access
the data, but nothing is forcing you to install in a logical volume.

Petter

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