[SOLVED] too many unsuccessful flatpak updates lingered in this directory. It sorted itself out after rebooting the system.
var capacity 11.1 GiB, var usage 10.6 GiB
why would var have such a restraint? reminds me of overly complex tutorials tricking people into elaborate partitioning schemes
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.
Uninstall all the flatpak packages that are installed as system wide packages and install them as user packages
would you eli5 how to do this?
Usually var gets full of old log files. So maybe delete some of those. Apt-cache is also a suspect
du -hsc /varCheck the sheets to see which directories are taking up your space.
du -hsc /var
sudo du -hsc /var returns:
10G /var,10G totaldu -hsc /var returns:
du: cannot read directory '/var/lost+found': Permission denied,du: cannot read directory '/var/spool/cron/crontabs': Permission denied…25 more lines like this
Put a
sudoin front of that then
Well, what’s using your /var?
You can use baobab or ncdu to try to figure out what’s filling it up.
I installed baobab 48.0.2 with
sudo apt.should I install ncdu 2.9.1 with
uniget install ncdu? the apt version is older than thatYou do you, but I think it’s rarely worth it having the absolutely newest version of something. The Debian version of a package may be older, but often has the advantage of being well-tested. And the Debian version of ncdu is all I’ve ever used and it has worked well.
uniget, huh? That’s not a package manager I’ve ever heard of before.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/var
But really, remove what you don’t use and/or stop using flatpak.
