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btrfs subvolumes are cool, but I'll still take partitions for separation. The whole point of having a separate home partition is that it's separate from / if we have to, say, reinstall the OS, or the filesystem breaks or whatever.
sure it might be possible to install an OS into a btrfs subvolume without wiping other subvolumes, but do I wanna risk it? Nah.
-- Frost
I always do LVM now. Virtual partitions are the way to go, personally.
The amount of times that the root partitions have been 20-25GB but have still gotten completely full such that updates break... Well I could count it on one hand but still difficult enough that I would rather just use virtual partitions, especially on a server.