var low on disk space, again

asked 2018-02-17 09:01:26 -0600

Orriginal
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Just a few weeks after install Fedora27 I have started getting "low on disk space /var" and it currently has 0Mb of space. I have also seen that seems to be because of pakageKit

My question is, can I just change the line in fstab that reads /dev/mapper/fedora-var /var ext4 defaults 1 2 to pint towards another disk that I make a var folder on ? Could I do this by Diskuuid/var /var ext4 default 1 2 ( obviously assuming the disk is an ext4

Or do I need to create a partition in that new disk out of free space and name that var ? And if I do that, again, do I just use the uuid to point towards it in fstab ?

Are there any other things that may still point to the old var paertition? For instance, will packagekit automatically find the new one because of the statement in fstab ?

Thanks in advance

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If you are using LVM you can extend /var over the new storage, even better, assuming it's a big new disk, you can extend /root an /home as well.

fcomida ( 2018-02-17 09:22:14 -0600 )edit

How can I do that ? A huge question lol...but I just want to move /var really

Orriginal ( 2018-02-18 02:36:13 -0600 )edit

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Thats a Good short stop solution and thank you but do have any suggestions for what I asked in the original post...as if the cache just rebuilds, I will have the same problem repeatable..........

Orriginal ( 2018-02-18 02:35:31 -0600 )edit

If it's been a few weeks and it's already full, I'd say your selected size for /var is suboptimal. Either resize it or reinstall if you don't know how. Also, it's non-standard in Fedora to have a separate /var, usually it's just a directory on rootfs so it all shares the same space. Feel free to post the output of

sudo parted -l u s p
df -h

cmurf ( 2018-02-18 12:33:28 -0600 )edit

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