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 -- Leven en laten leven