I have been trying to use (#debian) #linux with separate partitions for /home and couple of others. However, I have been facing the problem of /var becoming full and thus blocking further updates and installations. Most of the time deleting /var/log/auth.log would help but now I have messed up and can’t startup lightdm and using it from another tty. Can you guys share some tips and tricks as to avoiding this problem? I know keeping everything in one partition is one such trick. Anything else? #linux #foss #gnu #free_software #libre_software #disk #operatingsystems

  • BaumGeist
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    2 years ago

    Boot into a livedisk and transfer some space from a bigger partition to var. I had the same problem tbh, and iirc I just chose to go with /home and everything else as 2 separate partitions, didn’t see the value of having /, /usr, and /var as 3 different ones (plus fstab has caused me some issues whenever one of my disks is slower to come online than the primary, so I just figure the less partitions the better)