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I do something similar with disk usage. Create a dummy file with XX GB and delete it when you are running out of space

I worked at a shop where they didn't bother with a partitioning scheme - everything was just one large volume. The amount of times I've had to do emergency cleanup on production servers...

IIRC ext4 does this already. Saved me a couple of times.

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