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/var partition ran out of space. Upgradation of softwares failing. Any workaround?

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When trying this : How can I duplicate my existing software packages on a new system? , after fetching all the packages, during the process of unpacking, my 2.88GB /var partition ran out of space completely.

Now when I try to run an upgrade or even a partial upgrade of the softwares that I have downloaded, my update manager is crashing and failing complaining that I do not have enough memory left in my /var partition which unfortunately, is true.

Is there a workaround for this problem? Attaching a screen shot of my hard drive partitions : enter image description here

/dev/sda11 is the one that has run out of space.

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answered 1 Year ago weamp · Accepted Answer

Your root partition seems to have more disk space. Boot into recovery console, mount /dev/sda10 and /dev/sda11 somewhere, copy all data keeping permissions from /dev/sda11 to /var directory on /dev/sda10.

Then edit /etc/fstab to comment out the line which mounts /var. Reboot. Have fun.

To prevent this from happening in the future, I would then delete /dev/sda10 and resize your root partition to use those additional 2.8Gb. There's really no benefit in having a separate /var partition if you have that little disk space.