https://forcebyte.github.io/tags/storage/Recent content in storage on 'That' badly designed HomeLabHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFirehavenThu, 15 Oct 2026 01:00:00 -0500https://forcebyte.github.io/posts/2026-15-10-shikata-slimdown/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:00:00 -0500https://forcebyte.github.io/posts/2026-15-10-shikata-slimdown/Oracle’s free tier is generous with compute and weirdly stingy with disk, and that combination has shaped every storage decision in my homelab. This is the data story: what the limits actually are, the three ways I worked around them, and what’s still missing. The problem: every gigabyte counts The hard limit is 200GB of boot volume, total, across every instance in the tenancy. My main box (azamilab0, the k3s node) has a 153GB boot volume.