On Fri, 2025-09-19 at 23:26 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > 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.
Also, subvolumes can have different properties, e.g. for compression, deduplication, encryption, COW etc. Useful for VM subvolumes when you want the guest system to handle them, or for a swap area where you don't want dedupe and so on. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
