File system root low disk space

Rhamsody · 2011-04-11 13:03:29

I just installed arch linux last week and after installing some programs Im getting an error that says my file system root has low disk space. I have 5.4gb /boot 1.1gb swap 7.9gb /root and the rest, 486gb, for /home

I did the pacman -Sc command to try to free up some space but, it didn't free up much
also, when I go to my root folder and go to properties it says I have 128tb of stuff

a screenshot: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2532 … shotgq.png
Help please

Last edited by Rhamsody (2011-04-11 13:04:06)

SS4 · 2011-04-11 13:22:29

128TB is obviously bull excrement.

What's the output of

df -h

Rhamsody · 2011-04-11 13:32:37

I got

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 236K 9.8M 3% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/aff7c8d8-1b98-4300-8026-ad1d93a98ef2
7.3G 6.3G 609M 92% /
shm 1.9G 376K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 5.0G 24M 4.7G 1% /boot
/dev/sda4 446G 8.4G 415G 2% /home
/dev/sr0 695M 695M 0 100% /media/Ubuntu 10.10 amd64

JokerBoy · 2011-04-11 13:48:14

one word: ncdu.

also, check df -i too.

Mr.Elendig · 2011-04-11 14:13:11

pacman -Scc, du -sh /var/log, uninstall packages you never use etc

tomk · 2011-04-11 14:41:21

And a bit offtopic, but 5GB for /boot?! As you can see, you've only used 24MB, and even if you have multiple kernels it's unlikely to be more that 100MB, so you can gain a good bit of space there.

JokerBoy · 2011-04-11 14:45:59

some people like to waste disk space.. only 28.5M used with 2 kernels:

/dev/sda1  ext2        96.8M    28.5M    68.3M   31%  /boot

Rhamsody · 2011-04-11 15:08:52

tomk wrote:

And a bit offtopic, but 5GB for /boot?! As you can see, you've only used 24MB, and even if you have multiple kernels it's unlikely to be more that 100MB, so you can gain a good bit of space there.

so, shrinking my /boot and extending my /root would be a good idea?

also, I tried most of what you all have suggested and I now have 1.7gb of free space but, it's still saying I have 128tb of stuff. should I just pay no attention to it or is there any other way to fix that?

edit: I used ncdu and got this http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9909 … hamsod.png on my root folder
and http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/9909 … hamsod.png on my home folder

Last edited by Rhamsody (2011-04-11 15:29:41)

SS4 · 2011-04-11 20:41:34

Ignore your file manager, I suspect it records that because it can't access all the files. df -h is accurate. Launching your file manager as root (be careful) should also work

edit: you could shrink part of home (say 8-12gb depending on how often you delete stuff) and stick /var on the new partition (editing fstab accordingly)

Last edited by SS4 (2011-04-11 20:43:48)

Rhamsody · 2011-04-12 00:46:43

SS4 wrote:

Ignore your file manager, I suspect it records that because it can't access all the files. df -h is accurate. Launching your file manager as root (be careful) should also work
edit: you could shrink part of home (say 8-12gb depending on how often you delete stuff) and stick /var on the new partition (editing fstab accordingly)

ok, I'll give that a try. thanks a lot

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