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Bug 1615208

Summary: /var diskspace is under specified
Product: [Retired] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Leslie Satenstein <lsatenstein>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Petr Bokoc <pbokoc>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Version: develCC: pbokoc, zach
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list of non zero entries for a Fedora 28 Gnome system with /var none

Description Leslie Satenstein 2018-08-13 02:21:45 UTC
Created attachment 1475444 [details]
list of non zero entries for a Fedora 28 Gnome system with  /var

Description of problem:

Install guide and I believe release guide too, mention that /var would be satisfied with about 7-8 gigs of partition diskspace.

I setup /var on my system to be part of root. 

I ran into a problem. I received a warning that / was less than 1 gig from full. 

 I did a du -h of /var and it's grown to 15gigs. The culprits are freedesktop, lots of icons,  and loads of Gnome crap (from F26 forward).   Gnome software updates are not cleaning up /var
I cleared out 2 gigs of logs.

It is my intention to separate /var to it's own partion away from my SSD drive to a hard disk. I sized /var to be 10gigs, but now my existing /var does not fit. Ergo so my warning message about partition full.

What size is recommended. I ran a du -h /var  and I am attaching a list of the Fedora /var contents less the zero byte entries.
 
Although this is documentation, I will be posting a second bug against F28 gnome not cleaning up and along with freedesktop.


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Comment 1 Leslie Satenstein 2019-10-06 16:55:22 UTC
Problem is being addressed with log sizes and with dnf registering multiple duplicate entries in each of it's log.

Comment 2 Leslie Satenstein 2020-11-02 16:12:09 UTC
Has this issue been resolved?  
I am now using btrfs (One full partition) and if the issue is not resolved, the /var will gradually eat up all the partition space.

Comment 3 Petr Bokoc 2024-05-21 09:21:52 UTC
The install guide has been retired, therefore I'm closing this bug. 

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