Re: solution to / full

From	Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: solution to / full
Date	2023-03-01 21:00 +0100
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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.

> 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!

Cheers,
Andy

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    Re: solution to / full The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-03-01 18:00 +0100
    Re: solution to / full Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2023-03-02 10:50 +0100
      Re: solution to / full Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-02 13:30 +0100
        Re: solution to / full Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2023-03-02 14:20 +0100
          Re: solution to / full Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2023-03-03 16:50 +0100
            Re: solution to / full davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-03-03 20:10 +0100
            Re: solution to / full David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-04 18:20 +0100
              Re: solution to / full Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2023-03-06 11:50 +0100
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    Re: solution to / full Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2023-03-01 19:20 +0100
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      Re: solution to / full Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-01 19:40 +0100
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          Re: solution to / full David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-03 06:20 +0100
  Re: solution to / full Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-03-01 18:10 +0100
    Re: solution to / full Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-03-01 20:00 +0100
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    Re: solution to / full Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2023-03-03 07:50 +0100
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  Re: solution to / full Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2023-03-01 22:30 +0100
    Re: solution to / full Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2023-03-02 10:40 +0100
  Re: solution to / full Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-03-02 00:00 +0100
    Re: solution to / full Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-02 00:10 +0100
    Re: solution to / full Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-03-02 00:20 +0100
      Re: solution to / full <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-02 06:50 +0100
        Re: solution to / full lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2023-03-02 09:50 +0100
          Re: solution to / full lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> - 2023-03-02 10:00 +0100
            Re: solution to / full <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-03-02 10:20 +0100
    Re: solution to / full David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-03-02 23:50 +0100
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      Re: solution to / full Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-03 00:20 +0100
        Re: solution to / full David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-03-03 01:20 +0100

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