On Sat 31 Jan 2026 at 23:08:39 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 22:21:10 -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > fun. It is called How to clear var space in Linux - Best practices for > > freeing up disk space. from ITSMARTTRICKS. > > I would be cautious following anything that sounds like it came from > a social media platform. > > > The very first command df -Th /var would not work with or with out the > > security password. I am at a loss. > > This command does not require special privileges to execute. > > hobbit:~$ df -Th /var > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/nvme0n1p3 ext4 233G 211G 9.9G 96% / > > Please COPY and PASTE your attempt to execute the command. Make > sure you include your shell prompt, the command you typed, and its > full output.
To avoid confusion, it might just be worth mentioning that you, Greg, don't have a separate partition for /var, and so df prints statistics for the filesystem containing /var, which is / (quite full BTW!). Cheers, David.
