To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David]Thank you all for your replies. I just got done moving free space from Home to my var partition, again. <Grin> Darn Debian installer uses too small a var partition as mentioned in my OP. Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not boot the machine. That was not the problem. It was that the var partition was full and it needs space to use apt, cups, and other programs. I do have another problem I am working on that may have been cause partly because of the full partitioin but i will ask for help on that if I can't get it figured out. I really do appreciate all your comments and am sorry I could not address them until now. It took me all day to move 5 GB of free space from home to var on a 1T drive.
I went ahead and did the Gparted free space move over again because Hans mentioned it and I knew it would take some time to do it. Just wanted the whole thing over with.
Again, thanks all for your answers. I just figured that it would be best to upsize the partition once and for all rather than keep deleting files in var cache, tmp, etc. Hopefully an almost 8 Gb var will handle it now. My original one was 2.7 Gb and I had freed up 700 mb or so just a few weeks ago it seems and it filled up again so quickly.
You all are great to have on hand and we all really appreciate it. Regards and much appreciations. WhitPS, Someone mentioned that I could use just one partition for the drive and not have this problem anymore. I use separate partitions for security reasons and to learn things like the big guys <chucckle> even tho' i'm just a putterer who has used debian since Late Woody/Early Sarge. Just love Linux.
On 11/18/2015 10:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright:On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote:try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do not need (for example old packages).Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could delete anything in /var/cache with impunity, or else it has no business being there. (It might be wise to pick one's moment; boot into single user, for example.) Cheers, David.Of course, he can. My idea behind, was that if the user cannot start the system any more, this might be an alternative way. He can do apt-get clean or aptitude clean, too, if the system is still booting. Best Hans