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still makes sense to prevent overruns right? IE /home/ cant drop the whole system just cause you torrented too many debian ISOs and blew out your disk.

same for /var/ or wherever you store your DB tables like MySQL.

>>calvin+(OP)
Ah, yeah, that makes sense, thanks. My experience as "sysadmin" has largely been from the standpoint of personal systems for which that has mostly not been a big concern for me.

>>calvin+(OP)
Ironically using "modern" filesystems like zfs or btrfs you can do that if they are on the same disk

>>calvin+(OP)
The inverse is also true - cannot download an 60Gb game due to partition size being too small even if there is cumulative free space available.

>>calvin+(OP)
This is much better solved by quotas which can be adjusted on the fly without rewriting your partition tables.

>>bpfrh+Fx
Partitions are still on the same disk?