On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 03:16:53PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 06:56:11PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > Concerning the points raised: > > I still did not see any statement of which concrete problems or issues > you did actually want to tackle. For example it is a waste of time > people giving advice about the upgrade route if you have decided that > you do wish to fix your partitioning by means of a full reinstall. > > (I'm not telling you that you should fix your partitioning or that you > should do a full reinstall. As you say, it's a matter of how much time > you have available and what your goals are.) >
I found it easiest to just run the installer and say - use LVM, all files in one partition. that give you a boot partition and everything else in one partition. It Just Works (for high values of Just Works). If you then add a second disk, you can extend the LVM disk. > Moving to an advanced filesystem would bring more benefits that some > people say they can no longer live without, but there is maybe a steeper > learning curve and changes that touch many things like how you do > backups for example. > All best, as ever, Andy ([email protected]) > Thanks, > Andy >
