good day, all. in my new employment, i have been gifted with a dell laptop that i can install from scratch with ubuntu 25.04 any way i want, then load it up with all of the dev tools i need. until now, i've always just taken the default install, which is to allow the installer to allocate pretty much the entire SSD drive to "/", and everything goes under there in an ext4 filesystem. this new laptop has a 2TB SSD so i'm unlikely to run out of room any time soon, but given that much space, and the fact that i'm going to be making recommendations on how a few other people will be setting up similar laptops, i thought maybe i should put a little more thought into it. i don't see much point in using LVM since it's unlikely i'll be needing to do any restructuring of filesystems, not with that much space (and i read in a couple places of others having issues with LVM and ubuntu 25.04 desktop), so unless there is a compelling reason, i'll pass on LVM. is there much value in breaking off into separate filesystems perhaps /usr or /home? most of my work (sizable yocto project builds) will go under /home, so if there was going to be a huge filesystem, that would be the one. also, even on my current 25.04 system, after installing most of the dev tools i need, /usr still only uses around 12G, so a separate /usr filesystem could probably live with 50G just to play it safe. with ubuntu, the default filesystem for root is ext4, so i can stick with that, but if i want to carve off /usr or /home, is there much point using any of the other supported FS types like btrfs, XFS or ZFS? i haven't used those, so i'm interested if there are any benefits. thoughts? i could be lazy and just go with the standard install, but i'm willing to hear other suggestions and their benefits. rday To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org