Add space to the root volume

[chlowden]

My machines are desktop Rocky stations and I install lots of apps etc. Snap & flatpak take up so much space

Managing root partition on desktop

Snap and Flatpak take up way more room than I think make them worth it. It is like each app takes up nearly a whole embedded OS’s worth of disk space. Certainly try to use the “native” RPM packages for apps when you can using snap or flatpak only for apps you cannot find as RPMs. And then stick with one or the other, not both snap and flatpak. One could also probably move /var/lib/flatpak to /home and symlink to it there. But only if the flatpak service is not running at the time.

I really don’t want to rebuild my machine due to the time it (as I am sure many of you understand) and I did not really that all the apps etc install to root. The out of the box rocky root format size is 50GB, which is fine for a very specific use cases, but for a desktop usage like mine, the root should be at least 100GBs in my experience.