installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[Liam Proven]

On 19/07/2025 18:38, Robert Heller wrote:
> 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.

Neither is true.

You really owe it to yourself to look at ZFS some time.

The need for this is also demonstrated by Red Hat's efforts in Stratis, 
and bcachefs.

All of these obviate the need for LVM by rolling it into filesystem 
handling and are dramatically simpler as a result.

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