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.

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