Solved: Install not using whole disk

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david at daku.org wrote:
> 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.

I don't know what Liam and Ralf have got against LVM (and don't
particularly want to know) but I recommend it again. But that's a
separate question from what filesystem you use, as you say (or should
be unless you buy into ZFS). I've used all of the above (assuming you
mean btrfs) and would say it's horses for courses. If you have lots of
little files then there's still nothing that beats reiserfs despite it
being deprecated and removed slowly. If you have larger files then it's
difficult to beat xfs. Personally I would avoid ext4 and btrfs but some
people like them.

> 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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