On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:21:10PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I am running debian 12 on a HP computer and a samsung monitor. I have been > getting messages about var getting smaller and smaller. I went on line and > found what seemed to be an easy job so I printed it out. Then came the > fun. It is called How to clear var space in Linux - Best practices for > freeing up disk space. from ITSMARTTRICKS.
I had a cursory look at the site you probably mention. As others said here, just don't. It's full of it. For starters, it assumes that you have /var on a separate partition. These days, this is not necessarily the "normal" setup (although not rare either). Please: start with entering the command df -h and telling us exactly what its output is. Cheers -- tomás
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