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I will be installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Samsung SSD. The installation asks for standard LVM or doing partitions myself. Which one should I go for and which steps? I've come to know that ext4 is supposedly good.

So how should I proceed?

If I go with LVM, it says "the following partitions will be created":

  • LVM VG ubuntu-vg LV root as ext4
  • LVM VG ubuntu-vg LV swap_1 as swap
  • partition #1 of SCSI2(0,0,0) (sdb) as ext2"

So will this be optimized for SSD or should I go for manual partitions? Or should I do something else about the swap and ext2?

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  1. Which file system (ext2/3/4 or something else)? (consider SSD life)

    ext4 is a good filesystem even for SSD, so that would be my suggestion. (If you want performance so bad you should try XFS )

  2. Should I partition the disk? (as we do in traditional HDD) for now, no plan of dual booting. Only Ubuntu will live on scarce space of 80GB SSD.

    This is really not a matter of SSD, but your personal choice. If you were to ask me I'll say no; don't partition the disk you will end in loosing useful space. (If you end with a partition with 2GB free and another with 1GB free, you theoretically have 3Gb free but cannot copy a 3GB file... that space is wasted )

Source: Installing Ubuntu on a SSD [duplicate]

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