I’ve had to start uninstalling applications due to lack of space during upgrades (I have plenty of space on the SSD, it’s just the root partition that is full). I’m looking for the recommended way to resize the root partition in Silverblue (31). I’ve seen various guides across the Internet, but I’d rather get a recommendation from someone who has done this before on Silverblue. From my understanding, this is possible. If it’s isn’t–or at least isn’t recommended–would it be best to reinstall?
It all depends of your partitioning scheme. If you are using standard partitions and all space is assigned to them, the only option is to reinstall the system. But if you use LVM to manage the space there may be still possible to do something with this.
If you are running the default lvm partitioning scheme then you can run sudo vgs to see if there is anything available in the vgroot volume group under the VFree column. If there is space available you can resize the root lv with lvresize --size=XXg --resizefs /dev/mapper/vgroot-root. Where XX is the new size you want the filesystem to be.