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Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

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On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 08:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 12/04/2019 à 22:25, Thomas D Dial a écrit :
> > I let the installer partition the USB key that was the install
> > target
> > and picked LVM, but specified distinct /, /usr/, /var, /home, and
> > swap
> 
> Why did you create a distinct volume for /usr ?

A (now) bad habit brought forward from 20+ year old HP-UX admin
experience.
> 
> > partitions and left some empty space within the LVM volume group.
> > The
> > installer offers a number of other options.
> 
> The guided partitioning options do not offer to leave some empty
> space 
> for future use in the volume group, making them mostly useless IMO.

This is an excellent point. An LVM volume group without free space isn't
a lot better than a full physical disk. I don't use guided partitioning
at install because it fills the disk and the volume group and because I
don't think I need the several hundred GB /home that I recall it will
set up on the large disk or SSDs we have now.

Regards,
Tom Dial

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  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-04-11 16:30 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 20:50 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-11 21:40 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 10:20 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-12 16:40 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-12 18:30 +0200
          Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 21:50 +0200
            Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-13 00:00 +0200
              Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-13 00:10 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-11 23:40 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 10:20 +0200
        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-12 14:20 +0200
          Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 22:00 +0200
  Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-04-12 05:10 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2019-04-12 16:20 +0200
      Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-04-12 20:50 +0200
    Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-04-12 22:50 +0200
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        Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for  installation? Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-04-14 03:40 +0200
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