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Re: var is full...(Solved)

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To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David]

Thank you all for your replies.  I just got done moving free space from 
Home to my var partition, again.  <Grin>  Darn Debian installer uses too 
small a var partition as mentioned in my  OP.
Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not boot the 
machine.  That was not the problem.  It was that the var partition was 
full and it needs space to use apt, cups, and other programs.  I do have 
another problem I am working on that may have been cause partly because 
of the full partitioin but i will ask for help on that if I can't get it 
figured out.  I really do appreciate all your comments and am sorry I 
could not address them until now.  It took me all day to move 5 GB of 
free space from home to var on a 1T drive.

I went ahead and did the Gparted free space move over again because Hans 
mentioned it and I knew it would take some time to do it.  Just wanted 
the whole thing over with.

Again, thanks all for your answers.  I just figured that it would be 
best to upsize the partition once and for all rather than keep deleting 
files in var cache, tmp, etc.  Hopefully an almost 8 Gb var will handle 
it now.   My original one was 2.7 Gb and I had freed up 700 mb or so 
just a few weeks ago it seems and it  filled up again so quickly.

You all are great to have on hand and we all really appreciate it.

Regards and much appreciations.

Whit

PS, Someone mentioned that I could use just one partition for the drive 
and not have this problem anymore.  I use separate partitions for 
security reasons and to learn things like the big guys <chucckle> even 
tho' i'm just a putterer who has used debian since Late Woody/Early 
Sarge.  Just love Linux.


On 11/18/2015 10:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright:
>> On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote:
>>> try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd.
>>>
>>> Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you
>>> do not need (for example old packages).
>> Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could delete anything
>> in /var/cache with impunity, or else it has no business being there.
>> (It might be wise to pick one's moment; boot into single user, for example.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
> Of course, he can. My idea behind, was that if the user cannot start the
> system any more, this might be an alternative way.
>
> He can do apt-get clean or aptitude clean, too, if the system is still
> booting.
>
> Best
>
> Hans
>
>

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var is full... Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-18 15:20 +0100
  Re: var is full... Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-11-18 15:40 +0100
    Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 09:10 +0100
  Re: var is full... Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-11-18 15:50 +0100
    Re: var is full... Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> - 2015-11-18 16:30 +0100
      Re: var is full... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
        Re: var is full... David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-11-18 17:00 +0100
    Re: var is full... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:50 +0100
      Re: var is full... "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2015-11-18 17:00 +0100
        Re: var is full...(Solved) Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-18 23:40 +0100
  Re: var is full... Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2015-11-18 16:10 +0100
  Re: var is full... Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:10 +0100
    Re: var is full... Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2015-11-19 06:50 +0100
      Re: apt  WAS:var is full... Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> - 2015-11-19 13:40 +0100
      Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 09:30 +0100
        Re: var is full... Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-11-20 09:50 +0100
          Re: var is full... Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-20 10:50 +0100

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