Home Office PHP Web Server : HD Configuration

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Thank you for your feedback Michael.

Seems like the list might be dying off.

On 2021-05-26 17:32, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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 at 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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