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is there any way to increase the size of my /var directory under debian 12.7? (flatpak related)
  • In the future, you should look into using LVMs for your partitions. I ran into a similar problem recently where my /var needed to be increased - I was able to run a simple lvextend -L+4G /dev/myvg/var --resizefs to grow my /var by 4 gigabytes.

    Before I was using LVMs though I used a gparted live disk a lot

  • Source based Venom linux Distro
  • I've been a decades long Gentoo user, but now I'm experimenting with NixOS as I've gotten older and value my time more. The 12+ hours of compiling when there's a chromium / QT update is no longer a badge of honor. I haven't fully converted though, Gentoo binary packages are working as an acceptable stopgap

  • What is the most duct-tape thing you've done to Linux?
  • I'm using Gentoo with systemd and a customized kernel, and additionally I have the /usr partition LUKS encrypted. Because /usr is absolutely essential for systemd to function, I configured dracut to make a specially crafted initrd which activates the luks lvm and prompts for the password to decrypt and mount /usr on startup before systemd init tries to run.

    About a year or two ago, some update to dracut or some other dependency (assumption) caused the dracut generated initrd's to kernel panic. After multiple days of troubleshooting, I discovered that just copying forward an older initrd in /boot and naming it to match the new kernel, e.g. initramfs-6.6.38-gentoo.img , allows the system to boot normally .

    So, my Gentoo is booting a kernel 6.6.something with a ramdisk generated in the 5.9 kernel era. I am dreading the day when this behavior breaks and I can no longer update my kernel 😳

  • What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
  • Force uninstalled glibc on my Gentoo, which basically broke every shell and binary on the system. Was able to repair in place because I

    1. Had already compiled busybox statically
    2. Still had a copy of the stage 3 tarball on / which I could use to 'restore' glibc libraries
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