is there any way to increase the size of my /var directory under debian 12.7? (flatpak related) - eviltoast

when I installed debian 12.7 I created a separated /var directory, along other 2 separated directories (names forgotten).

I also use flatpak and this program is installed in this directory. Executing ‘flatpack update’ I discovered this directory is 95% full, meaning I cannot update anything, because /var is 95% full (only 400 MiB free)

Ideas to solve this?

  • gomp@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 month ago

    (I assume you meant “I created a separated /var partition”)

    You can move/resize partitions from basically any live usb (via cli or gparted for gnome and kde partition manager for kde).

    Shall you want to, you can also merge the var partition with (say) your root partition:

    1. mount both partitions in two directories (just create empty ones and mount on them, say ~/root and ~/var)
    2. inside ~/root create the new var/ directory
    3. copy the data over
    4. edit ~/root/etc/fstab (remove the line for the old var partition)
    5. use whatever partitioning tool to get rid of the actual partition and expand the previous/next one

    Be aware that you can very easily lose your data ;)

    PS: just in case, try running flatpak uninstall --unused