Why are you making a sym link to the other drive? Just mount that drive as /home ...
Also, LVM is fantastic to have, especially if you want your skill set to transfer over to the Enterprise world. --- Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Google Pixel 9 Pro On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 15:35 Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Ctrl+Alt+Fn + any function key does not give me a CLI. > > I also agree I don't need to install LVM. I am installing Ubuntu 24.04 on > one drive and /home on another drive and creating a sym link between the > two, so I don't think an LVM will help me. > > Mark > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM rusty carruth via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 16:16 -0400, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:20:57 -0700 >> > Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > In terms of a major reinstall, should I use LVM or not? >> > >> > No, don't use LVM. Just one more abstraction layer to go wrong and >> > bork >> > all your data. It also adds more learning to our already >> > overburdened minds. From my understanding, LVM bestows three >> > advantages: >> > >> > 1) "Rubber" partitions that can grow and shrink. >> > >> > 2) Partition snapshots. >> > >> > 3) Combining multiple hardware disks into one virtual disk. >> > >> >> Steve did a great job of explaining it all. :-) And I echo the 'added >> complexity' comment. With LVM, you turn your hardware devices into LVM >> 'devices', THEN you put them together in to LVM groups, THEN you make a >> usable drive. Or something like that. And I can tell you, while it is >> possible to expand an LVM 'drive', it is a lot easier to grab a new, >> huge drive from the store, install from scratch to it (or dd copy and >> expand, or whatever), and now you have a backup of everything on your >> original disk ;-) >> >> So, personally, its a lot of extra work, which gives you a LOT of >> power, that you'll either never need, or have to spend a lot of time >> figuring out how to use! ;-) >> >> >> I would like to slightly disagree with Steve about RAID. The theory >> behind RAID is that you put a 'bunch' of different disks together, with >> the ability to REBUILD your entire 'drive' if (only) one drive fails. >> This is very handy if your 'drive' is multiple terabytes and you need >> to keep going while it rebuilds, instead of waiting for the backup to >> restore. >> >> One thing that I think RAID builders need to consider is - one of the >> major theories in RAID is that the drives will tend to fail with no >> correlation to the other drives. But, if all the drives are from the >> same manufacturer, built in the same batch, I think this assumption is >> probably faulty :-) So, I buy drives from different manufacturers to >> put together into a RAID array. >> >> The other downside to RAID is that you lose some storage by having the >> checksums stored. >> >> Ok, back to the woodwork for me! ;-) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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