Solved: Install not using whole disk

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 at 19:25, David <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.

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Re LVM: well, one of the issues with Linux LVM is that you need a
filesystem _as well_ on top of LVM.

So:

* what is the role of the box?
* what kind of disks will you have and how many?
* how do you plan to arrange them?
* will it be on a PSU?
* will you be regularly backing up? how? to what?

If it's an ordinary PC, with one big disk (say), not on a PC, just
plain old ext4. If an array, these days, on Ubuntu, I'd use ZFS ZRAID.

But if it's a NAS server, well, I recently moved to TrueNAS Core and I
like it so far.

If you want a general-purpose Linux box, Zentyal might help you.

But you've not given us enough to go on.


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