installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[Robert Heller]

Since I was using LVM back in the LILO and GRUB 1.0 days and also using RAID, 
I kept /boot separate, but if GRUB2 can deal with LVM, I guess you can do as 
Tony suggests.

At Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:30:22 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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