On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> 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? > It makes it harder to share partitions with other operating systems in a dual boot setup, particularly a fat32 partition with windows is problematic, so nothing that matters. Actually in all seriousness, other than the dual boot issue doing a guided partitioning then changing things like deleting a partition is not well supported by the installer. It is seldom a problem for me these days as I preseed everything. > > > KiBi. > -- -- Ben Hildred Automation Support Services
