Re: var is full...(Solved)

[Whit Hansell]

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.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  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

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

[Dale Morris]

this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by
running apt-get clean


Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is
 a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I
 finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk
 contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200
 for /tmp. I am noticing that /var is now 70% full. Yesterday it was 46% and
 I went in and cleaned out all my big mail files, yet that made little
 difference. Is there something wrong here or is this normal /var behavior?
 
 Here's what the df command yields:
 
 Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
 /dev/hda394667 53227 36552  59% /
 /dev/hda594635   638 89110   1% /tmp
 /dev/hda6   283431187954 80838  70% /var
 /dev/hda7  1922188764500   1060040  42% /usr
 /dev/hda8  2402992552172   1728756  24% /home
 
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Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

[Brian Frederick Kimball]

Dale Morris wrote:

 this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by
 running apt-get clean

Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get.  As I
understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents
of /var/lib/apt/lists.

And yes, whoever named the apt utilties needs to be slapped.  My
favorite example of their poor naming is using apt-get to remove a
package.  That's a bit like using the start button in Windows to
shutdown the system.

And isn't it funny that there's no apt binary?  You'd think that with
a tool named apt the actually frontend would be named apt also.

Oh well.  I didn't write it and I'm not contributing code, so I guess I
can't complain too much.