I run everything through LVM after about the second time I crashed my root partition on plain ext2 by filling it entirely, at least probably 10-12 years now.  LVM2 doesn't crash it like that even if filled, or cause a full fsck of fscking time and other weird catastrophic restoration of services.

If no encryption, you can set lvm2 to pass through ssd trim, or setup your own periodic trim jobs.  I'd love to hear reasons not to use lvm, as it's dated, and looked at things like zfs and btrfs to replace 1) raid, 2) encryption. and 3) logical volumes, but without these all wasn't really an option.  Curious if anyone's using any one native solution for all three yet.  Using mdraid+luks+lvm+ext4 is still my general go-to.

-mb


On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 2:24 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,

I've installed Linux many times.  For the last few times I just chose
the defaults for configuring the HD.

I am running a 250GB SSD. It will be entirely dedicated to the server.

In reading the docs there is an option of using the entire disk for LVM
and there will be two partitions, one for /boot and one for everything
else.

Any thoughts on using the default HD configuration?

Thanks!!
Keith
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