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minus-squareswearengen@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoYeah storage is cheap but I last reformated my boot drive in 2017 so my root partition is 20GB and now I have no room for Flatpak. Now I could just resize it but wheres the fun in that. TL:DR “A 20GB root partition ought to be enough for anybody.”
minus-squareNaoPb@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI feel your pain. Flatpack can really ruin partitioning strategies.
minus-squareAProfessional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt has an installations feature to use any location, as well as users home by default.
minus-squareinverted_deflector@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoBefore I realized you could install as user and have it install on your home drive I just symlinked the install directory where i wanted to.
Yeah storage is cheap but I last reformated my boot drive in 2017 so my root partition is 20GB and now I have no room for Flatpak. Now I could just resize it but wheres the fun in that.
TL:DR “A 20GB root partition ought to be enough for anybody.”
I feel your pain. Flatpack can really ruin partitioning strategies.
It has an installations feature to use any location, as well as users home by default.
Before I realized you could install as user and have it install on your home drive I just symlinked the install directory where i wanted to.