if it's the last partition on the disk, you can resize the partition and
then grow the filesystem.  there are options.  however, lvm is so good I
almost always use it.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:51 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 11:30:12 -0700
> James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > I generally go with 20 gigs for my homedir.  but i make it an lvm
> > partition, so i can grow it as needed.
>
> I don't use LVM because I try to limit layers of complexity. So what I
> do is when a directory under /home/slitt gets too big, I use a bind
> mount to host that particular directory. Bind mounts are great because
> they (appear to) grow as the total bytes in the directory grows.
>
> I think next time I full-reinstall my computer, I'll have a huge
> partition dedicated to providing space for bind mounts. The following
> /etc/fstab entry is how I made sure that gnome-boxes images didn't swamp
> my /home/slitt partition:
>
> /scratch/gnome-boxes /home/slitt/.local/share/gnome-boxes none bind 0 0
>
> SteveT
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