Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 2025-01-19 22.21, Mike Wright wrote: On 1/19/25 11:00, Robin Laing wrote: It needs to be planned for as many of us, me included, didn't have enough space if /var partition to account for this change. I am now going to be rebuilding machines that have small /var partitions.  At least with

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Mike Wright
On 1/19/25 11:00, Robin Laing wrote: It needs to be planned for as many of us, me included, didn't have enough space if /var partition to account for this change. I am now going to be rebuilding machines that have small /var partitions.  At least with flatpack, I can use applications that ar

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Michael Hennebry
sudo flatpak repair did the trick. flatpak now takes up only 140 M. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- _

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 2025-01-16 17.04, Michael Hennebry wrote: After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade , /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could just remove. Not this ti

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-19 Thread Robin Laing
On 2025-01-16 18.41, Tim via users wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade, /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could jus

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/17/25 3:55 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/17/2025 04:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means on

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Joe Zeff wrote: On 01/17/2025 04:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/17/2025 04:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my system. dnf does not seem to have a --d

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Michael Hennebry
Is there a command that will tell me what packages depend on flatpak? I realize I could do a remove command and see what else would be destroyed, but that means one bad key press and I could lose a bunch of my system. dnf does not seem to have a --dryrun option. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/17/25 12:25 AM, Tim via users wrote: On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 22:59 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: flatpak is a dependency of gnome software, so you can't completely remove it. And if you don't use Gnome? Then you can probably remove it. I have Mate, might explain why I don't appear to have a

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-17 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2025-01-16 at 22:59 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > flatpak is a dependency of gnome software, so you can't completely > remove it. And if you don't use Gnome? I have Mate, might explain why I don't appear to have any flatpak junk. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SM

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/16/25 4:04 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade , /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could just remove. Not this tim

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Tim via users
Hi Michael, https://www.google.com/search?q=erasing+flatpak+cache turned up this, at the top: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=387079 I wonder if the commands are the same in Fedora? (I have no flatpaks to play with, and don't want any.) -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.e

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Tim via users wrote: Michael Hennebry wrote: After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade, /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. sudo dnf clean all did not help. Previously when my /var ran low, the problem was a directory named cache that I could ju

Re: /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects using up /var partition

2025-01-16 Thread Tim via users
Michael Hennebry wrote: > After my most recent sudo dnf upgrade, > /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects is using up most of my /var partition. > sudo dnf clean all did not help. > Previously when my /var ran low, > the problem was a directory named cache that I could just remove. https://www.google.com/s

Re: /var/lib/system-upgrade

2021-01-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/01/2021 04:51, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I've noticed that the subject directory contains a lot of fc22 rpm's. Can somebody explain what purpose it serves? It takes up much apparently unused space (some 1.5 GB) that I would happily use for other purposes. None.  It would seem to be a remnant

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 05/03/2015 04:47 PM, jd1008 wrote: I distrust suid programs. Skepticism toward SUID root is sometimes merited. Evaluating your own needs for such programs is reasonable. Distrusting the mechanism itself is tin-foil-hat-crazy. I find it strange that a security minded system needs an su

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:47 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll /bin/locate > > -rwx--s--x. 1 root slocate 40528 Aug 18 2014 /bin/locate > I distrust suid programs. > I find it strange that a security minded system needs an suid > program to do something as simple as locate a file. T

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/04/15 07:47, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 05/03/2015 05:25 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/04/15 07:14, jd1008 wrote: >>> As unprivileged user, I run locate >>> and get >>> $ locate file_3.mp3 >>> locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied >>> >>> I always end up running

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
jd1008 wrote: > > > On 05/03/2015 05:25 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 05/04/15 07:14, jd1008 wrote: >>> As unprivileged user, I run locate >>> and get >>> $ locate file_3.mp3 >>> locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied >>> >>> I always end up running sudo to change th

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-03 Thread jd1008
On 05/03/2015 05:25 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 05/04/15 07:14, jd1008 wrote: As unprivileged user, I run locate and get $ locate file_3.mp3 locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied I always end up running sudo to change the perms so unpriv'ed users can run locate.

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-03 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Ed Greshko wrote: > On 05/04/15 07:14, jd1008 wrote: >> As unprivileged user, I run locate >> and get >> $ locate file_3.mp3 >> locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied >> >> I always end up running sudo to change the perms so unpriv'ed >> users can run locate. >> >> W

Re: /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db perms

2015-05-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/04/15 07:14, jd1008 wrote: > As unprivileged user, I run locate > and get > $ locate file_3.mp3 > locate: can not open `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db': Permission denied > > I always end up running sudo to change the perms so unpriv'ed > users can run locate. > > What command should I run so t

Re: /var/lib/libvirt/images on BTRFS (it works!)

2013-11-18 Thread James Hogarth
On 17 November 2013 16:28, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > 1. execute: chattr +C /var/lib/libvirt/images > or wherever your image files are. This needs to be done on the directory > whether you have a separate subvol or not. > > 2. This ONLY works for new files and ONLY works for "raw" storage f

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-12 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Patrick Dupre < patrick.du...@univ-littoral.fr> wrote: > Quoting lun, 11 mar 2013 Reindl Harald : > > >> >> Am 11.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Patrick Dupre: >> >>> I made a BIG mistake, >>> I removed /var/lib. >>> >> >> the machine is done >> >> How can I reinstall it?

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 03/11/2013 01:28 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: Quoting lun, 11 mar 2013 Reindl Harald : Am 11.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Patrick Dupre: I made a BIG mistake, I removed /var/lib. the machine is done How can I reinstall it? what do you imagine to "reinstall" no way - /var/lib contains as examp

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Patrick Dupre
Quoting lun, 11 mar 2013 Reindl Harald : Am 11.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Patrick Dupre: I made a BIG mistake, I removed /var/lib. the machine is done How can I reinstall it? what do you imagine to "reinstall" no way - /var/lib contains as example the complete RPM-database In the past it

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.03.2013 14:18, schrieb Patrick Dupre: > I made a BIG mistake, > I removed /var/lib. the machine is done > How can I reinstall it? what do you imagine to "reinstall" no way - /var/lib contains as example the complete RPM-database signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Richard Shaw
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I made a BIG mistake, > I removed /var/lib. > > How can I reinstall it? I don't think there is any fool proof way but it may be technically possible... I'm thinking you would need, at a minimum, a list of all the packages you had

Re: /var/lib

2013-03-11 Thread Tahir Hafiz
Hi Patrick, How did you remove that directory? I think if you removed it via the GUI then it should still be in the wastebasket. If you did rm -rf /var/lib/ then I am not sure you can bring it back! Kind regards, Tahir On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Patrick Dupre < patrick.du...@univ-littora