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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Even if you have no current plan to change disk spaces you might find that changes at some point in the future. With LVM you can put your original space as a single PV in a VG. If you later need more space you can add another disk as a new PV into the same VG. Since the LVs are subdivisions of the VG rather than the PV you can quickly around space limitations without having to redo your original layouts.<br><br>LVM isn’t really that hard to do so it is only unfamiliarity of its flexibility that makes partitioning seem “simple”.<br><br>However, each to his own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Ale <ale-bounces@ale.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Ulmer via Ale<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 1, 2026 5:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> ale@ale.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Mark Ulmer <mark@markulmer.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] to lvm or not lvm is my dillema<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The LVM replies are all great. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>For my desk/laptop, I don’t tinker with the partitions, I just want it stable and simple. I do a single part and format ext4. If I was doing server, or had much bigger 1tb then I might tinker around more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Done lvm, yet for some purposes I go simple. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>---- On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:44:05 -0500 <b>Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>></b> wrote ----<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Friends:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I am installing DEBIAN on my ASUS motherboard based desktop.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I am at the stage where it is asking me to partition the disks.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>NVMe-1 blank 256GB<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>NVMe-2 Window 11 exists from broken laptop 256GB<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Does it make sense to install LVM ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>What does it get me ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>-N<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list <br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a> <br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a> <br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at <br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>