Exactly my experience, even worse because for me it's 2x256GB drives. Eventually I bit the bullet and upgraded one of them to 1TB, but not the one my root partition is mounted on (too lazy for that), so now I find myself moving various large directories across to my "extra" drive and symlinking them. Funnily enough I don't remember this ever being a problem back when 50GB was considered a lot.

Because when 50gb was a lot, by the time you filled it, 200 GB was cheap and a non event.

Yea, I remember when the family computer had a 40MB hard drive and it was never ever filled to capacity. Now I’m wondering how many new disks to add to my ZFS pool, and when. And how to budget for it.