# pacman -S xorg
# pacman -Scc
and so forth,
]]>1.When pacman ran out of space I cancelled it (with Ctrl-X, I think...). As I understand the new loaded packages were not installed then. Is that correct?
Ctrl + C, yes that will kill the pacman process.
2.Is it worth installing them one-by-one and then deleting? But anyway, I will not gain much space, will I? (I think the anwer is "no")
Exactly how much space do you have on this partition?
3.So I need an extra HDD or bigger one. (I have a few of them with different systems). But according to my knowledge you can speed up your system by having more than one HDD. Is that correct with Arch?
You can do software raid0, but it requires both a format, and a 0.7 beta ISO. You could also have used LVM which allows you to span partitions across disks.
4.If 3=yes, then howto do it the best way? ( I mean to spread directories etc. ...)
http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/
5. And because I'm considering udev, maybe I should do it first?
Shouldn't make too much difference, don't init s with udev though, lots of links vanish which may be needed.
]]>1.When pacman ran out of space I cancelled it (with Ctrl-X, I think...). As I understand the new loaded packages were not installed then. Is that correct?
(Then, if I delete them... I spent 2 hours downloading with broadband... And I think pacman should say something about free space and stop itself in such situation...)
2.Is it worth installing them one-by-one and then deleting? But anyway, I will not gain much space, will I? (I think the anwer is "no")
3.So I need an extra HDD or bigger one. (I have a few of them with different systems). But according to my knowledge you can speed up your system by having more than one HDD. Is that correct with Arch?
4.If 3=yes, then howto do it the best way? ( I mean to spread directories etc. ...)
5. And because I'm considering udev, maybe I should do it first?
Regards.
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> cleans all the duplicates, leaving you the lastest packages
pacman -Scc
> removes all the packages in cache
As you've discovered, you can easily build up a large number of packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. You can clear this directory in a safe and appropriate fashion as follows, as root or using sudo:
pacman -Scc
Regards,
Win
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