On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:49:03PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > For what it's worth, this is really needed, and overdue. I have > > repeatedly failed Fedora OS release upgrades on different machines by > > running out of root fs space. I think the default / is around 50GB, and > > it's too easy to fill: during OS update we need space for three copies > > of each package: the old version, the downloaded new version, and the > > space to install the new version. > > 75G on new installs today but yes there are many folks still with a > 50G root volume at / > > And changing this to 80+G is sorta 'kick the can' but also as it turns > out it doesn't really fix the problem that well and puts pressure on > /home in cases where the laptop drive is kinda small. There are other > valid ways to solve this single problem, e.g. a single plain ext4 or > xfs volume. But both of those leave things on the table users benefit > from.
We cannot do anything for existing installs. It is up to owner to juggle partitions. Also, with btrfs proposal we do not have to decide how to split space between / and /home. Boths are just a subvolumes and share all the space. -- Tomasz Torcz 72->| 80->| to...@pipebreaker.pl 72->| 80->| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
