Hi, On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 11:50:41AM +0100, Richmond wrote: > /var can grow significantly over time due to logs, databases, and other > persistent services, so I can understand why someone might put it on its > own partition.
When we're talking about single user workstations and laptops though, the number of times the user will encounter a filled root filesystem is not large, and it's not a difficult problem to solve. If my only choices were that problem or the problem of failing to correctly guess the fixed size of multiple partitions at install time, I'd go with the former problem every time. Fortunately LVM and advanced filesystems exist though, so those aren't my only two choices. You could say I now have 99 problems but fixed size partitions ain't one. Its unclear to me from OP's message whether OP actually wants to solve the partition sizing issue or is just complaining about it and THEN asking for unrelated Debian 13 upgrade tips. Trying to solve the partition size problem during an upgrade (not a reinstall) seems like hard work. If you really had to, I'd try that before or after upgrade. As regards the upgrade itself I second the advice to read the release notes now, read them again once it's released and then read them again especially the part about upgrading from Debian 12. The release notes for upgrade do cover how to work out if you have enough dusk space for it, if the partition sizing issue is a concern here. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
