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I recommend next time to use btrfs. With / and /home (at least) as separate subvolumes. Each subvolume will use the space it needs, and no more. If you have a 500Gb SSD with 300Gb in /home, and 20 in / they both have 180Gb they can use.
And when you manage to fill the 500Gb, it's easy to just add another drive to the volume.
Btrfs is really cool, just a warning: I had a surprise when I found out the subvolumes make a device more of a hassle to mount externally, you can't just put it on an external HDD enclosure and expect it to work as painlessly as it is with more "traditional" file systems, I had to mount each subvolume manually as GUI file managers only mounted the root.
It's not complicated, but more than I'd hoped for.
Thx for eli5 the advantage of btrfs