On 2026-03-11 at 13:20 ADT, bp@www.zefox.net <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:During a full update several gigabytes of space may be required to download new packages which remain until you do an apt clean. More space on top is required during the installation of each package, and /boot/firmware may double in size temporarily as it is updated.
What I'd like to do is resize the existing root to roughly itsI think you will rue that decision later, unless you are sure that you are
present, occupied size,
never going to add more packages (which will occupy some space in /etc and
/var, even with the bulk of the space being in /usr), never do updates
which may use more space in /boot, /etc/ or /var, and so on.
I haven't had a separate /usr partition on any system in a long time (andThe whole separate partition thing was way back in the days of unreliable filing systems on small discs. It just isn't needed these days when you can just have everything on one large partition and not have to try and work out the high water mark needed for each part.
I'm wondering why you want to do that), so I can't give any helpful amounts
on the minimum extra space you should leave. But I strongly advise you to
give yourself enough extra space in / to handle future updates to your
system.
---druck
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