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.
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