<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">The LVM replies are all great. </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">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. <br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Done lvm, yet for some purposes I go simple. <br></div><div><br></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br><br></div><div class="replyHeader">---- On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:44:05 -0500 <b>Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale <ale@ale.org></b> wrote ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Friends:<br><br></div><div>I am installing DEBIAN on my ASUS motherboard based desktop.<br></div><div>I am at the stage where it is asking me to partition the disks.<br><br></div><div>NVMe-1 blank 256GB<br></div><div>NVMe-2 Window 11 exists from broken laptop 256GB<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does it make sense to install LVM ?<br><br></div><div>What does it get me ?<br><br></div><div>-N<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<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> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>