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, 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
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