OK I will admit that this is partly my fault not looking before I leap…
BUT! ( there is always a but )
Who was responsible for and then decided to put the default / partition size
on install of 13.2 at 20 Gigs???
Now normally I do my own partitioning but this tine I bought myself a
reasonable Toshiba Satellite lappy, 4 core Intel I3 with 1 TB drive, 8 Gigs
Ram, wireless, Bluetooth and Intel graphics I knew all hardware was
compatible and so thought to myself a nice little machine for running
Opensuse while on the move.
First thing was to format away MR Gate’s love child and use the whole drive
for my favourite distro.
So installed without really looking just let it do it all for me, DOH!
Now it has been running for just under a month and over the last 2-3 days
has slowed to a crawl on boot and runs like a donkey with 3 legs.
Did a little probing and a delving, did not see anything that hit me in the
face until I did a google on my phone because this lappy would not even
connect and Lo and behold it appears my / partition is full, err, no there
should be plenty of room, at least 6-7 Gigs by my quick mental estimate as I
know what I have installed.
Found a post on the forums about snapper and the back-ups had a look and yes
my / was full…
Bye Bye snapper may you rot in an evil place, I now have back 7 Gigs free
space on /,
But my little rant is that the default scheme could have been a bit more
intelligent in working out a partition set-up or even put a big warning
message about the pit falls of running snapper and btrfs on such a small /
partition,
This just goes to show that even us so called “experienced” users can get
bitten by being a bit of a smart ar*e and not reading the docs…
Now I wonder how many of the new users are going to come up against this
problem and not know what to do and finally give up and try another distro,
Luckily I do not have much in my nice 880 GIG"s * ( YES you read that right
880 mostly empty GIG"s ) /home on this single user lappy, so when I can get
to a more reliable WiFi spot that does not drop every 5 mins it will be
backup about 12 Gigs of stuff from home and then a fresh install without
btrfs, snapper and with LOADS more room on /.
I thank you for getting this far, personally it was TLDNR for me, and I
wrote it
Cheers
- Now at my age there is no way I would ever be around long enough to fill
all that free space up, I may even dual boot to TW or something just for
giggles.
You will now be returned to your normal service.
–
Mark
Nullus in verba
Caveat emptor
Nil illigitimi carborundum