I just installed Ubuntu 24.04, and I made a mistake: I put the
/var
directory on its own partition, and its size is 10 GB. After a few days it is already full.
Is there a way to fix this problem without reinstalling the OS from scratch?
Is it possible to resize a partition, even loosing its contents?
What is a suggested size for the /var
directory?
This is my partition table:
Model: WD_BLACK SN850X 2000GB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
8 1049kB 1075MB 1074MB fat32 boot boot, esp
1 1075MB 323GB 322GB xfs /
2 323GB 426GB 103GB linux-swap(v1) swap swap
3 426GB 437GB 10.7GB ext4 var
4 437GB 439GB 2147MB ext4 temp
6 439GB 547GB 107GB xfs 3rdp
5 547GB 1406GB 859GB ext4 home
7 1406GB 1427GB 21.5GB ext4 crypt
This is the contents of my /var
directory:
~> sudo bash -c 'shopt -s dotglob; du -hxs /var/*'
7.0M /var/backups
661M /var/cache
4.0K /var/crash
8.9G /var/lib
4.0K /var/local
0 /var/lock
49M /var/log
16K /var/lost+found
4.0K /var/mail
4.0K /var/metrics
4.0K /var/opt
0 /var/run
13M /var/snap
52K /var/spool
108K /var/tmp
4.0K /var/.updated
Here are more details about my partitions:
~> df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 5.9G 2.7M 5.9G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1 300G 29G 272G 10% /
tmpfs 30G 180M 30G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
efivarfs 148K 62K 81K 44% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p6 100G 2.5G 98G 3% /opt
/dev/nvme0n1p7 20G 24K 19G 1% /crypt
/dev/nvme0n1p4 2.0G 103M 1.7G 6% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p3 9.8G 9.6G 0 100% /var
/dev/nvme0n1p5 787G 13G 734G 2% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p8 1022M 41M 982M 4% /boot/efi
tmpfs 5.9G 196K 5.9G 1% /run/user/1000
Asked by Pietro
(663 rep)
Jun 14, 2024, 09:47 PM
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