I recently installed debian 12 using debian-12.2.0-arm64-netinst.iso. It is the only OS installed and I used the whole 500GB disk.
I selected something like guided partitioning with separate /home/
using LVM and encryption. Now that I am using my system a bit, I realize that I don’t think it ever asked me how big to make the /
partition and it is very small. Only 27GB.
Will this be a problem?
Or, is the LVM going to allow the partition to be resized or otherwise take up as much of the space as it requires?
# lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 476.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 488M 0 part /boot
└─sda3 8:3 0 476G 0 part
└─sda3_crypt 253:0 0 475.9G 0 crypt
├─mycomputer--vg-root 253:1 0 27.9G 0 lvm /
├─mycomputer--vg-swap_1 253:2 0 976M 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─mycomputer--vg-home 253:3 0 447G 0 lvm /home
I tried booting into a live usb to resize the partition using gparted
but I couldn’t seem to do so.
If I need to reinstall and change something I’d rather do it now than later.
LVM gives you the ability to downsize and resize without having to worry about partitions boundaries. So, if you find yourself in need for storage you can downsize the home partition and grow the root.
That said, I have debian/i3 INSTALLED ON A 16GB USB with a couple of docker containers and vscodium and it is around 10/14gb usage.