On 2025-01-19 22.21, Mike Wright wrote:
On 1/19/25 11:00, Robin Laing wrote:
It needs to be planned for as many of us, me included, didn't have
enough space if /var partition to account for this change.
I am now going to be rebuilding machines that have small /var
partitions. At least with flatpack, I can use applications that are
not in any Fedora repository.
Many of the servers and services, ie dnf, apt, postgres, mysql, apache
(httpd), knot (dns), among others (except bind9 which for historical
purposes uses /etc), have been using /var since I can remember. Adding
flatpak to the mix makes sense. Snaps are there now, too, but I seem to
recall them originally hanging out at /snap, at least on Ubuntu.
I have separate partitions for /home and /var. You could even go the
LVM route which gives you the ability to grow the storage area
relatively easily. I've never lost anything doing it that way.
:m
I am not against flatpak or snap using /var. I agree with the standard
and how it is implemented. All I meant to say is it is part of the
future and what we did in the past needs to be updated to meet today's
needs.
About to rebuild and give / and boot to a single small SSD.
Giving up on partitioning out /var. /home will be part of the same
drive but each user will be on a different drive/partition and I have
been doing that for a long time.
If I cannot get everything but home and swap on a single 260G drive,
Linux has a problem.
Oh the days of a full graphical OS on a 40Gig drive.
I have lost data with LVM's and btrfs at different times in the past and
have to regain my trust.
I do want to move to a COW FS in the future. I don't need to merge
multiple devices. If it doesn't fit on one drive, then a new drive goes
in. Old school here.
In some searches, I came across this that I find interesting with some
recent discussions I have been involved in.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/197643 (Updated August 6 2024 at
7:27 AM )
The Btrfs file system received numerous updates from the upstream in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.0 through 6.6 and 7.0 through 7.4. It will remain available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6 and 7, however there will be no further updates to this feature, and it has been fully removed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
This takes btrfs out of the running.
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