installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[Tony Arnold]

As is Liam's way, he's being quite blunt!

On Sat, 2025-07-19 at 16:35 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 at 13:00, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > When installing, do you use LVM? Is there a good reason to use/not
> > use LVM?
> 
> Don't.

You need to learn at least the basics of LVM before going down that
road.

> Horribly overcomplex, 

Like any complex software you need to go through the learning curve for
it. Once you understand the basics, it's not too bad, IMHO

> nasty UI,

Yeah, it's all command line stuff. There was a GUI some years ago but I
don't think it's available any more.

> not integrated with the rest of the
> kernel or filesystems.

Not sure what you mean by this. It's a volume manager. It doesn’t know
anything about file systems in the same way partitions don't know about
file systems. When you create a logical volume you have to put a file
systems on it.

> Ugly kludge.

That's a matter of opinion!

>  Avoid.

See my comment above about learning LVM before using it.

One alternative could be ZFS. That also needs learning and is CLI only,
AFAIK

Regards,
Tony.

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