installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:20:48 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Don't.
> >
> > Horribly overcomplex, nasty UI, not integrated with the rest of the
> > kernel or filesystems. Ugly kludge. Avoid.
> >
> 
> This is truly awful advice, Liam. Every job I've had in the last 15 years
> has been somewhere that used LVM. Large trading firms use it. The entire
> FinTech sector, in fact. I get you have a strong opinion, but it's a bad
> take.

Agreed!

And I would guess almost the entire VPS sector uses it.  When I had a batch of 
VMs on my (now dead) AMD ATX box, I used a LVM logical volume for each VM I 
had.  (Actually I use a LVM logical volume for the one x86_64 VM I have on my 
PI5.)

Not using LVM means either just having one giant file system (a truely 
horrible idea from a sane backup point of view), or having to grovel with 
gparted on a live ISO on a USB flash drive whenever you need a new parition or 
need to resize partitions.  Been there back in the olden days.  Ugh...  With 
LVM one just uses lvesize / resize2fs -- I even wrote a bash script to do 
this. 


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