Re: solution to / full

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
>> Andy Smith (12023-03-01):
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p2   23G   21G  966M  96% /
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p6  267M   83M  166M  34% /boot
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p1  511M  5.8M  506M   2% /boot/efi
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p3  9.1G  3.2G  5.5G  37% /var
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p5  1.8G   14M  1.7G   1% /tmp
>> > > /dev/nvme0n1p7  630G  116G  482G  20% /home
>> > This is an excellent illustration of why creating tons of partitions
>> > like it's 1999 can leave you in a difficult spot.
>> 
>> No it is not. The /boot and /tmp partitions are superfluous, and
>> /boot/efi is too large (but at a guess it was already there), but they
>> would barely make a difference.
>
> I was talking about them going to the effort of separating /home and
> /var and ending up with completely inappropriate sizings. They would
> have been much better off just not bothering and having it all in /.
> The mere presence of all these other partitions laid out on this
> disk after the one for / makes resizing things a lot harder than it
> needs to be.

  yes, but old habits can die hard... and there weren't
these wonderful gadgets called SSDs around.  in my own more 
recent installations i got away from too much fragmentation 
and i'm glad for that as then i do have more space to work 
with.

  mainly the other partitions are now backup, pictures or
a spare bootable stable partition and that has been working 
out well.

  i do not do llvm because i don't have that much need for
that level of complexity.


>> On the other hand, in 2023, it is still a very good idea to separate the
>> system filesystem that gets written frequently from the one that gets
>> written rarely from the user data filesystem.
>
> No argument there, but not with disk partitions as they end up hard
> to resize, as seen here. OP is quite fortunate that their last
> partition is one that can be most easily shrunk as that at least
> gives them some easier options. I'd agree it would be a better
> example of a tight spot if their last partition were one they
> couldn't shrink!

  i could find a lot of space by deduping backups and pictures
but that is on my TODO list for the year 2026 at the rate i'm
going.  it may end up being much more time efficient to just
go out and buy another 2TB SSD and swap that for my smaller 
one and call it good enough.


  songbird