On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 23:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The really nice thing about using subvolumes is that you don't have to > guess and hope that you get the sizes right for the / and /home > partitions. I remember many times when I would create too many VMs or > something in the / partition and run out of space when there was still > lots of room in /home. Or doing system upgrades was a big one. I would > often symlink the cache into /home. Or you run out of space in /home, > but there's still lots left in /. Now, there's only one partition and / > and /home are just subvolumes. So the total space is shared and you > only run out when it's all gone.
If the notion of **partitions have a size** has gone right out the window, why bother to try to do anything that's remotely like it? Just have one "/" partition and have everything in it just as a directory. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
