installing ubuntu on a new system - questions

[gene heskett]

On 7/20/25 06:26, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
I did, about a year ago as I was considering setting up amanda as a 
backup solution, running on armbian, currently based on ubuntu, but I 
made the mistake of reading the ZFS license.  Nuff said.
> 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.
This would be welcome news indeed. But then I'd have to live in an RH 
lab cage.  Liam of all the folks here should have a good idea how well 
that might work.  :={

Take care of #1, Liam.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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