70GiB is lots of free space? π€¨
I think if that was all I had left I'd already have a new disk in the post
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I have like 6gb xD.
Just a heads up, since I don't know anything about your setup, but an SSD that's more than 90% full will most likely lose performance
I have definitely noticed but it is a crucial bx500 so not all that fast anyway.
You poor soul.
Nvm. 0mb now
This is the OS partition. I have an external 2TB drive, but admittedly I'm not knowledgeable/careful enough to install things other than games from Steam there. All other programs are on the root partition, which is causing this problem and that makes me want to scream. One day my swap is going to choke.
Oh I was more saying that's quite a low amount of free space for an application to be putting a message like that up!
I think my desktop has something like 20TiB free out of around 60TiB currently and I'd just call that a comfortable place to be.
..... But I'd understand if a disk tool gave me some grief over it
Yes, ΓΎis is what I've been waiting for: FOSS software to start judging me. It's what's been missing in my life, until now.
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All you need to do is install way too many packages on your root partition, including BTRFS Assistant and you, too can be judged.
Yes, that is objectively a lot of free space.
Of course there are some uses where it won't last long but they're very exceptional as filesystems go.
On my desktop, I have about 200GB free, which is about 10%, which feels like the bare minimum, and the only reason I haven't upgraded yet is that there's some large directories I can archive should it be necessary.
On my server, I recently was down to about 500GB free, also about 10%, which made me add more drives.
So it's all relative.
SSD's can't edit a sector, but do a copy-modify-write operation. Having little spare sectors left means this data needs to be cached and can lead to significantly slower operating speeds.
Leaving 10% free is a very healthy habit I always recommend, and this counts for phones too.
I wouldn't say a gamer is remotely exceptional, some modern games take up 200+GiB (which is ridiculous, but still reality)
If you're a content creator or hobbyist that does anything with video, photo or audio, that's gonna disappear in a flash. For example, I came back with ~30GiB of RAW photos from my last weekend away, and that's before any processing which will create some intermediate TIFF/DNGs. If it was a week away I'd not even be able to pull them all onto my PC to process.
Hell, I'd be worried about using most of that up by just cloning and compiling a Linux kernel, I think last time I needed to do that I ended up using about 50GiB
I'd say sure, the average web browsing, word processing user you're probably thinking of is going to be fine for a while, but all other use cases aren't exactly exceptional.
70GiB was a good amount of free space about a decade ago, not really at all today
Yeah, I do video editing as a hobby. I have the raw footage on my external drive, but every time I render it makes sense to do it to this SSD. It goes fast.
I'm not sure how you're compiling the kernel to take up 70GB, my Linux directory hovers around 6GB.
I was doing some awful manual patching trying to get some Linux TV kernel patches into a raspberry pi kernel I was cross compiling on my main desktop.
IIRC I had both repos cloned for quick reference/source of truth and then a third I was using to do the actual work on. I remember running a du summary on my working directory with it all in at the end, and it was somewhere between 40-50GB.
There was probably a more space efficient way to achieve what I was doing, but there was no need to worry about that
It's also calling you a scrub in the next box down.
The 16TB I have free, are for emotional support.
Can I borrow like 500 gb?
Sure, you can even have the biggest piece.
This you?
It's also wrong in its trolling, because having used up to 75% you obviously didn't overbuy.
You would never want to go completely full, so you always need to buy a bit bigger than you actually plan to use.
I do have a 2TB external drive, but installing things there would be a detriment to loading times of programs there. And, I don't want some kind of system weirdness from installing there. I'm also a relative newb, and that's a factor.
I gotta do this today. I liked Ubuntu but I need something less thinky like Bazzite.
I tried it earlier, but my flash drive fried (didn't know it) ended up with like 4 partitions on my nvme, none of which would boot. No kernel found in grub, was able to boot into recovery from the stick, did the media test BAM failed sector. Went in to try and wipe the drive, magically had a 6.98 available space and the whole drive was write protected.