I have been upgrading after a few weeks of being too busy too. I constantly now run out of space on my 50GB root partition even when running -Sc after every update and reboot to make sure everything works...
It really is crazy that there is no option to put all the programs on another partition than root unless you make a separate partition for /usr that will somehow foresee what you will install in the future.
My /usr with all of my programs installed is 29GB and /var takes up 10 GB. That leaves just 10GB for everything else.
I have just followed the partitioning advice since my first 2016 install, but in the past few years, everything has just ballooned in size it seems and is now always a problem every few years no matter how big you make your root partition.
Is there a better solution for this? Can we place /usr files managed through managers in /home? I think that is against the pacman/yay way of working.
You need a root partition, that is about the only requirement. But the rest I don't really see a point in anymore. Well except for boot, but that one's small and easy to predict it's size.
Why even have separate partitions if you are just going to munge them on each other?
What does having a separate home partition actually but you? And is it worth the cost of running out of disk space on one partition and needing to accruately predict how much you are going to need on each one?