Separate /home is such a scam. Never have I run out of home space, but boy is 27GB not enough for a root partition that runs any kind of service.
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Use a modern filesystem like btrfs or even lvm with thin provisioning to solve that problem. Separate partitions for ease of backup, but they all pull from the same pool of storage.
On my PC and all my home servers I keep my root partition at 10GB and haven't had any issues (although I keep everything that isn't hardware related or a system utility in userspace in home).
On my PC I crammed arch, all of KDE (+extra KDE utilities), and some other system stuff like LACT and distrobox in the 10GB root partition and run almost everything else as a flatpak installed to home.
On my servers I do the same thing but all my services are in podman containers in userspace.
Having all the software needed to make the machine work be isolated from my custom userspace junk makes me feel better, and I like that I can mount root as read-only to make it immutable
I remember daily driving Gentoo unstable in the early 2000's on my rig in college. It was like trying to beat a Dark Souls boss every time I wanted to do an update.
i mean, all the important stuff is saved to OneDrive, right?
Fuck it, we ball. 3 years no arch deaths. Windows is a fuck. 1,000,000 pacman warnings.
Iβm here for a good time, not a long time
Also, my last Arch death was due to accidentally ovverwritimg the whole drive, so no amount of split partitions is going to save me
They call it disk destroyer for a reason. You gotta alias that shit.
alias dd='echo Did you triple check which device you picked? Of course not, dipshit. Check again'
Surely double checked is enough
It's not. Neither is triple checking. Notice how the alias doesn't actually run dd? That's on purpose.
Lol, as someone who tried a bunch of different distros, I used the dd command a lot without ever realizing what could go wrong with it. I must have used up all my luck with that though, because somehow I ended up on manjaro of all things.
Hahahahah I need to do that lmao!!!
my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
Right? The OP describes me (except I like to think I'm not that sweaty) and I don't remember ever having reinstalled because things were broken.
You're still using manjaro after all their drama? I jumped ship.
I remember using manjaro vanilla and breaking it in a single month of use.
No aur enabled, no nothing - it just broke, it wasn't even funny
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This is me!
does btrfs finally work now?
Finally? It's been SUSE's default for at least a decade now. It's the default for Fedora since 33, so ~5 years ago. Btrfs has been working for a long time.
Yeah and it's awesome. I have it making backup snapshots automatically and I copied the steamos-readonly script from valve to automatically lock everything except my home/root/var/opt etc (I realize you can remount ext4 as ro too, but still btrfs handles this well).
I recently swapped the contents of two drives of different sizes (one was a server and the other was a PC) and btrfs made the filesystem resize and expansion parts easy.
I have ext4 and dont use a separate3 home partition but I use timeshift
Btrfs and snapper. Only time I ever had to reload a snapshot was because of my own actions. I've been fortunate to never have any update related breaks. Maybe a couple services had hiccups, but never breaks.
xfs gang? π₯²
My /home/$USER partition is on a separate disk. Me wicked smaht
SMRT!
No sweat. I prefer to reinstall and start fresh every now and then anyway.
ROFL Like, this was me on other distros just using ext4, no timeshift (made manual backups though, not as much as I should've). Now, I am understanding the hype with btrfs, Snapshots, as they have saved my ass so much. Using Garuda Linux, BTW! Sometimes a machine doesn't matter so much so...I lived life dangerously, and paid for a particularly low cost for it.
Snapper is sooooo nice π€©.
Ridiculously easy to use and quickly get back into a working system! I used it first with openSUSE Tumbleweed, now I use and found it to be excellent.
At least they're not waiting several months for accumulated updates! I've been told that's how you break an Arch system.
Not really. Might have to update the keychain first or update the package mirrors of it's a very long time but it's not a huge deal
It's not so crazy these days. In several years of running arch, only once has an update broken anything (and that's because I was messing around with virtual machines).
I don't keep anything important on my primary daily driver. I keep it all on my NAS and that has backups.
This is me... IDGAF
Been there, done that
I was one of them few years ago...
That was me when I first started using Linux 10 years ago. I didnβt know any of this stuff, and most of it didnβt even fucking exit. Wing it and worry later. Moral of the story, I reinstalled several times a month. Lmao