Re: RFC: Switching guided partitioning to LVM by default?
On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 04:06:49PM -0400, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While preparing some slides for my ???News from the Debian Installer??? talk
> at DebConf17, it occured to me that we might want to reconsider the
> default here:
>
> Guided - use a whole disk
> Guided - use a whole disk with LVM
> Guided - use a whole disk with encrypted LVM
> Manual
>
> Current default is the first entry, and I think we should switch to
> second one, with LVM.
>
> If the user doesn't need to touch anything, that doesn't change much; if
> the user wants to change partitioning afterwards, LVM's flexibility is
> available.
>
> Is anyone aware of any drawbacks of switching to LVM by default?
>
When we take LVM as default (which is fine for me)
then we should have the courage to have free PE.
So not assign all diskspace.
Advantages:
* user gets the benefit of LVM: assigning space to a file system
* quicker install ( no formatting/mkfs of whole disk )
* no need to shrink /home so space can be used for /srv
Disavantage, in theory:
* user might miss disk space
Groeten
Geert Stappers
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