OK so I went looking on the net /debian/var to find out why it is
running out of room. All I could find is the directions to delete said
files. I will put them back, now.
On 4/28/23 8:46 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
On 29/4/23 08:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I am 72 and have forgotten a few things. I looked up debian/var and
was told I could delete /var/log/
and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/. I left cores alone and deleted the
other two. Now I cannot burn a backup, download files and even go to
web sites from my nord vpn which was working great until I deleted
the above files. I really want to upgrade to debian 11. I am using
debian 10, on a Lonovo all in one and have had no problems. I
followed the directions for var that I found and now have a screwed
up machine. Is there any help available. I was thinking of upgrading
online but don't want to loose my data. Please help this old lady.
Deleting /var/log etc is at best unhelpful.
I can't think of any procedure that would require deleting those
directories. Perhaps someone was fooling with you?
Without knowing what else you have done or why, it's probably a good
idea to recreate the directories
cd /var
mkdir log
mkdir tmp
Before you do a reboot, perhaps explain what else you have done and why?
