Solved: Install not using whole disk

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:16:45 -0700, David 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.

Hi,

if I should set up my first little server to serve my needs, I much
likely would go with a Linux server and ext4 and most likely this would
be very stupid.

A long time ago I decided to backup all most important changes of my
Linux desktop PC from time to times by a complete copy of everything
containing those most important changes by rotation to different
HDDrives. Mainly from ext4 without a snapshot feature. IOW I need to
shut down my running machine and then start a backup, generating tar.gz
archives. The last time I've done this was from 30. to 31.05.2022. The
backup took 23 hours 2 minutes and 50 seconds. What started as a
reasonable good solution in the beginning and worked very well for
several years, became a serious annoyance already a while back.

IMHO a server is asking for FreeBSD and whatever should be the
common approach the time you set up the FreeBSD server. Actually this
is much likely FreeBSD with a ZFS pool.

Regards,
Ralf