On 9/19/25 11:23 PM, Tim via users wrote:
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.
Because the subvolumes are still separate. You can do backups of
specific subvolumes. You can re-install the / subvolume without wiping
the /home data. You can do quotas. If you have a secondary drive, you
can use subvolumes to add space in specific locations in the tree.
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