On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 08:45:41AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I > selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default sizes of > the partitions.
How many disks are there? *How* did you partition them? Are you using raw partitions under GPT or DOS partition tables? Are you using LVM? RAID? Encryption? > When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > > Can I increase the size of the /var partition on the ssd without having to > reinstall the system? If you used LVM and left a bunch of the disk unassigned, then you simply assign some more space to the corresponding LV. If there's any free space left over that you *didn't* assign to a partition, you could create a separate /var/cache/apt file system and mount that on top of /var. If not, then you'd need to steal some space from another partition. Or, perhaps, you just need to delete some old files from /var/cache/apt/archives. How big *is* your /var partition? How much space is currently used by /var/cache/apt? What's your retention policy for the .deb files?
