I'm not sure if this goes to the Ubuntu team or the Linux team (if you know someone on either team, please forward this along).
When installing Ubuntu, the most common installation options (defaults) reserve 5% of the / drive for root (this has been something that has existed
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for a very long time). The problem, however, is that we now deal with SSD / NVME drives that are in the multi-terabyte range. Every time I do a fresh install for Ubuntu, I find myself running "tune2fs -m .01 /dev/xxxx" to reclaim hundreds of gigabytes of space.
My suggestion ...
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to the fantastic development teams is to lower the percentage reserved for root to something smaller than 5% (Perhaps .5% would be a good compromise). People who are unaware of this basically are giving up hundreds of gigabytes of space on their root partition.
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