On 2025-05-16, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> /var can grow significantly over time due to logs, databases, and other >> persistent services, so I can understand why someone might put it on its >> own partition. > > When we're talking about single user workstations and laptops though, > the number of times the user will encounter a filled root filesystem is > not large, and it's not a difficult problem to solve. If my only choices > were that problem or the problem of failing to correctly guess the fixed > size of multiple partitions at install time, I'd go with the former > problem every time.
Back in the day, when you opted for a home partition and allowed the net installer to do the partitioning for you, it used to give you a ludicrously small root that could be filled up in a jiffy. This appears to no longer be the case, in my experience.
