var capacity 11.1 GiB, var usage 10.6 GiB

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    why would var have such a restraint? reminds me of overly complex tutorials tricking people into elaborate partitioning schemes

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    1 day ago

    Uninstall all the flatpak packages that are installed as system wide packages and install them as user packages, that way flatpak will use your /home partition. I had the same problem.

  • istdaslol@feddit.org
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    Usually var gets full of old log files. So maybe delete some of those. Apt-cache is also a suspect

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    dd if=/dev/zero of=/var

    But really, remove what you don’t use and/or stop using flatpak.

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        That’s why I didn’t include any privilege escalation, even if someone ran it as is it would fail. But a warning is also appropriate, thanks.

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          18 hours ago

          That doesn’t make it better.

          The first thing a novice user learns is to slap sudo in the front if they don’t have access to do something.

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        19 hours ago

        It would probably fail unless var was a block device actually. It wouldn’t turn a directory in to a file.