I recently hit something similar on Silverblue. I installed Silverblue when F28 was available and installing flatpaks without the --user flag. I'm usually splitting my drive to small root partition (50 GB) and rest is for the /home. So right now, I'm running out of space on /root because the flatpaks now takes over 20 GB themselves, together with ostree image and some other things it's taking almost all available space.
Not sure if this should be addressed somehow. Maybe the default disk partitioning for Silverblue should be changed. The Silverblue should target users, who will work with GUI most of the time and there is no way to change default installation folder for flatpaks in GNOME Software.
Michal
On 2019-10-30 03:10, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 5:07 PM Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com mailto:lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
The subject of disk space and flatpaks came up in the most recent workstation meeting, and I'd like to separately discuss that in this thread before creating a flatpak issue. The full log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/workstation/workstation.2019-10-28-13.00.log.html Excerpts: 13:16:07 <langdon> allocating enough disk if you have your drive sliced up is tough 13:16:36 <Son_Goku> and yeah, the disk space issue is a huge problem ... 13:16:47 <kalev> "the disk space issue" ? 13:16:58 <otaylor> Son_Goku: why would disk space be an issue? flatpaks store data in $HOME ... 13:17:19 <langdon> that's the problem.. normally I have a "games disk" 13:17:27 <Son_Goku> likewise Neither sysroot nor $HOME fits the above use case, where the user wants to store games on a separate volume entirely. And another use case is where it's desirable to use the much larger /home volume storage pool, but permit sharing of apps among users. Could there be a /home/share/flatpak with the appropriate permissions, that meets both use case requirements? Alternatively, Workstation could do what Silverblue does, with /var/home bind mounted to /home - and therefore system and user flatpaks go on the same volume. But there should also be a way to set the default location for flatpak files. Users wanting a games volume could bind mount it to /var/lib/flatpak, but then they need a way to set system as the default location instead of users.If you have your disk carved up in particular ways, you can just create a custom flatpak installation wherever you need it, See flatpak-installation(5). You can of course bind mount things around behind flatpaks back, but I think a custom installation is cleaner and already supported.
I don't think there is a need to set the default location for 'flatpak files', any more than there is a need to set a default location for 'rpm files'.
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