Re: Preparing for Debian 13
On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 05:30:51PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I currently run Debian 12 Stable, amd64.
> Unexceptional single-user SOHO setup on a relatively current
> (2023) low-end Dell laptop.
> Intel Core i3 processor.
> 8Gb ram.
> UEFI booting.
> Internal nvme SSD, 256 Gb, for mass storage.
> Partitions:
> nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
> ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
> ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 23.3G 0 part /
> ├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 9.3G 0 part /var
> ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 977M 0 part [SWAP]
> ├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 1.9G 0 part /tmp
> └─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 202.6G 0 part /home
>
> Note: 10 Gb for /var is barely adequate. I have to
> periodically do surgery to cut out the built-up bloat there.
>
> Since Debian 13 should soon be released, what should I be doing
> ahead of time to prepare for the upgrade? For me, upgrading is
> always a major hassle, so I try to make it as easy as possible.
>
It's a bit late at this point, but why did you split your installation
into different partitions, fixed partitions no less, on a laptop with a
single disk? That's the sort of thing you do with a server where you
have RAID, LVM, and possibly other advanced storage-related things going
on.
You give the sized, but not the space utilization, of your partitions.
Without additional information, I would suggest booting to a USB-based
install, rsync-ing everything from /var temporarily over to some place
in /home, removing the /var partition, resizing the / partition to
closer to ~16G, then re-creating /var at somewhere around 16G
(essentially the entire free space between / and swap.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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