I am going to install Mint 19 (Tara) on a laptop and I'm not clear on if I should use LVM? I believe it has 1 HD. I will use virtualbox and Windows 7 from within Mint, so not planning on using a dual boot. 4 GB RAM, but may upgrade it to 8 GB. >500 GB HD. Will encrypt the laptop.
Right now I am using 17.1 on a different laptop (250 GB HD), but will do a fresh install, install the applications I want, and then am planning on transferring my home directory from this laptop to the new one.
Not sure even what are the considerations for whether to use LVM.
Logical Volume Management?
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Logical Volume Management?
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catweazel
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Re: Logical Volume Management?
Leave it alone. LVM is used to create logical volumes from multiple physical volumes or entire hard disks. It absolutely has no reasonable purpose on a single HDD slot laptop. If you were building a server then it'd be a different story.
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Re: Logical Volume Management?
I made a mistake it has a 700 GB HDD and a 100 GB SSD, but based on your response presumably the answer is the same?
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catweazel
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Re: Logical Volume Management?
Yes, it's the same
LVM only complicates matters, and with a mechanical disk and an SSD, you'll end up losing some of the benefits of the SSD.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.