• NeatNit
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    10 months ago

    and then play around in a VM with the various options to become informed enough to do something less vanilla.

    This part is skippable, right? Any reason a user should ever care about this?

    (note: never heard of LVM before this thread)

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      10 months ago

      It makes adding space easier down the road, either by linking disks or if you clone your root drive to a larger drive, which tends to not be something most “end users” (I try not to use that description but you said it heh) would do. Yes, using LVM is optional.

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      10 months ago

      It’s all skippable if you want… Just put a large / filesystem on a partition and be on your way. There are good reasons for using it in some cases (see my response now).