On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 10:57:08AM +0100, Jonatan Schlag (jonatan.schlag(a)ipfire.org) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Daniel encountered the problem that his root partition was written full
> because of the qemu addon being too big (200 MB). See bug #12268 for
> details.
> 
> So he suggested moving the path /usr/share/qemu to /var. I do not
> really like this solution as there are standards how the filesystem
> hierarchy works under Linux. 
> 
> Furthermore, as the systems become bigger (eg. moving python3 to the
> core) this problem will become more relevant to us. So I would like to
> start a discussion on how to solve this. Moving things to /var can only
> be a temporary solution. Should we force a reinstallation, which solves
> the root of the problem?

One obvious alternative would be using LVM. Combined with a suitable
filesystem like ext4, it makes resizing filesystems pretty trivial.
It does add a bit of overhead but not enough to matter here, IMHO.

Another would be using ZFS, which solves the problem a bit differently
(and arguably better), but it's not included in mainline kernels due
to licensing issues so it would add maintenance work.

FWIW, I like LVM and tend to use it in all systems where disk space
and allocation is likely to change.

-- 
Tapani Tarvainen