Hi, OP again. 1) Regarding:
"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." I originally posted asking for general advice about upgrading to Debian 13 Stable, when it is released. The issue of partition sizing just happened to come up in the discussion. Thanks to all for the input regarding partition sizing and alternatives. Maybe it is time for me to learn lvm. 2) Regarding: "Why not enable tmp.mount (tmpfs)? In most use cases, /tmp is not really utilized much – pointless to waste 2 GB of valuable NVME capacity on that." Tmp.mount is something else I don't know anything about. I should look it up. 3). Regarding: "Please tell us about your NAS." Let me clarify: I do NOT have any NAS. (I wish I did!). Unfortunately, I wrote: "I would like to be able to do RAID setups, and have NAS." I should have written: "I would like to be able to do RAID setups, and I would like to have an NAS." I apologize for the confusion on this point. 4) Regarding rsync filling up /: I don't mean to unnecessarily prolong the discussion. But let me say that I do like rsnapshot, and do use it for my daily backups to an external usb drive. Rsnapshot WILL complain and refuse to run if the target external usb drive is not attached. The problem is with rsync itself (which I like and use). After I do the daily rsnapshot backup to external usb drive A, I then use rsync to copy any changes from external usb drive A to external usb drive B. (Yes, I know that is NOT recommended. I really will try to improve/replace that part of my backup routine "Real Soon Now". :) As mentioned previously, if the target usb drive B is not attached, rsync by itself will create a mount point with the name of the usb drive B in /media/[user home directory], and write to that until / fills up. Since I know almost no shell scripting, the rsync usb drive A to usb drive B copy is done with a simple bash script consisting only of the rsync backup command, with options and parameters, but without any code to verify that usb drive B is attached. I really should learn more shell scripting. That is something else I will get to "Real Soon Now". :) 5) Finally, regarding "what is filling up /var?": IIRC, among other things, it includes .gz compressed log file backups, Flatpak crud, and /var/cache/apt/archives buildup. I frequently do: # apt-get autoremove and # apt-get autoclean And when I really want to go on a diet, I do: # apt-get clean Thanks again to all!
