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 -- Roberto C. Sánchez
