installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[Tony Arnold]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 16 2025 at 08:39:56 -04:00:00, Robert Heller 
<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> Ever since LVM was an option I have always used it when installing 
> Linux
> (various distros).  LVM lets one divvy up chunks of disk space for 
> different
> things (root, /home, /data, /backups, VMs, etc.)  and to grow or 
> shrink those
> "chunks" as needs change over time.  One does not have to be "locked" 
> into a
> partitioning at install time that may prove to not meet your needs 
> later on

Just to add to what Robert has said, I also make /boot a logical 
volume. I found /boot could easily fill up and as a partition, it was a 
pain to resize or clean up. Now, if I need to, I just resize the 
logical volume!

I would also suggest you leave some unused space on your disk so you 
have room to enlarge logical volumes, should you ever need to.

Regards,
Tony.
--
Retired computer scientist and IT security analyst
> 

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