Solved: Install not using whole disk

[David]

Thanks to the several who answered my question.  The machine in 
question is used as a server, and avoiding the Logical Volume seems 
the wisest choice.  Then the question becomes which of the offered 
file-systems to use, ext4, xfs, brtfs, but that's a different question.

David



At 09:26 AM 6/3/2022, you wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:28:54 +0100, ubuntu at howorth.org.uk 
>wrote: >lproven at gmail.com wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 at 01:20, 
>David <david at daku.org> wrote:  >> > >> >    Set up this disk as an 
>LVM grup    >> Why? Hi, I guess the reason why matters whatever kind 
>of "pool" file system is used. For a desktop PC or laptop it's 
>counter-productive to add a new disk to a pool, if a disk runs out 
>of free space. It's better to add a disk with more space and copy 
>everything from the old to the new larger disk. By this approach you 
>know that all the data is on a particular disk and not randomly 
>spread on a virtual disk build from a pool of several real disks. 
>For your server farm in the basement you probably will use FreeBSD 
>and ZFS. In this case, why using Linux at all? >> Ubuntu has ZFS if 
>you want dynamic volume management. >> >> Linux LVM is complex and 
>confusing and not worth the effort unless >> you specifically _need_ 
>it.  > >In your opinion. :) >I use it often and love it. It's very 
>simple in practice. What? You must have been using another LVM then 
>the one Liam and I used :D. >I have used ZFS. I found that to be a 
>nightmare. YMMV. I don't have any experiences in managing ZFS, since 
>I don't run a server farm in the basement. >> If you don't: avoid. I 
>agree, for almost all usages I would go with something banal as 
>ext4. Regards, Ralf -- ubuntu-users mailing list 
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