I have been upgrading after a few weeks of being too busy too. I constantly now run out of space on my 50GB root partition even when running -Sc after every update and reboot to make sure everything works…

It really is crazy that there is no option to put all the programs on another partition than root unless you make a separate partition for /usr that will somehow foresee what you will install in the future.

My /usr with all of my programs installed is 29GB and /var takes up 10 GB. That leaves just 10GB for everything else.

I have just followed the partitioning advice since my first 2016 install, but in the past few years, everything has just ballooned in size it seems and is now always a problem every few years no matter how big you make your root partition.

Is there a better solution for this? Can we place /usr files managed through managers in /home? I think that is against the pacman/yay way of working.

  • Meow.tar.gz
    6•1 year ago

    I know this is really not a good reliability/security decision that I’ve made but I only separate out the boot partition and I have one big root partition. It’s not gotten me into trouble yet because the ext4, xfs, and zfs filesystems are very mature and reliable. My production systems are just my own homelab stuff with nothing critical. The reason I do this is because I’ve never been good about guesstimating what my partition size needs are and inevitably I cause problems for myself later on down the line by underestimating. I thought that LVM was supposed to help make resizing partitions easy but I don’t know enough about LVM since I’ve never really used it.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Same. I use the vanilla partitioning scheme. I put all of my effort on backup and reproducibility of my system. I completely wipe out my system at least every month.

      • Meow.tar.gz
        1•1 year ago

        Do you use a different distro or basically put the same one back on?

          • Meow.tar.gz
            1•1 year ago

            Arch rocks! I use it both on my desktop and VMs. My server uses Proxmox.

            • @[email protected]
              1•1 year ago

              Yeah we are moving away from CentOS and into vanilla Debian for our servers and kvm hosts. We haven’t tried Proxmox yet, just didn’t have the need since we are a smallish shop and have in-house tools to help with vm management. It is very interesting tho and will probably try it in the future.

    • Beej Jorgensen
      2•1 year ago

      On newer machines I stopped even splitting out /boot. Now it’s just one big partition and a swap file.

      And regular backups. 😅