Does anyone know if the Ubuntu 24.04 installer will take care of creating the mount point on the second drive for /home and put the OS on the first drive? Or, do I have to install the OS on the first drive first, then format the second drive and make the mount point myself?
Thanks! Mark On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Ctrl+Alt+Fn +any function key does not give me a CLI on the old system. > > Since I am installing Ubuntu on one drive and /home/mark on another drive, > I don't think I need LVM, either. > > Mark > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This being laptop ? and using Ubuntu - LVM also makes sense for full disk >> encryption as per 24.04 install options. >> >> -T >> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025, 17:15 Michael Ewan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > For anyone interested in LVM, here is an article I wrote a while back. >> > >> > >> https://medium.com/@michaelewan/the-joy-of-using-the-logical-volume-manager-with-linux-f1768e5413ef >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2025, wes wrote: >> > > >> > > > I would suggest only using LVM if you plan to actually take >> advantage >> > of >> > > > its features. there is no benefit to just having an LVM volume in >> the >> > same >> > > > capacity as you would have a traditional partition. and a >> significant >> > > > disadvantage if things go wrong in the future. >> > > >> > > This is good advice. >> > > >> > > > take advantage of its features >> > > >> > > Among these, I'd specifically include >> > > >> > > * altering the size of your filesystems >> > > * integrating new disks into your filesystems >> > > * snapshot-based backups >> > > >> > > If you have local disk capacity far beyond what you currently need, >> > > LVM would provide a handy way to right-size your current filesystems >> > > while giving yourself a lot of flexibility for future expansion. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Paul Heinlein >> > > [email protected] >> > > 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W >> > >> >
