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rhomheow

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Registered: 2017-05-02

Posts: 19

Root partition almost full

Hey guys my root partition is almost full and I don't get why cos I haven't really installed much on it. I went through some of the posts on this same issue and tried their suggested. None of them worked for me though. Below is the output of "df -h".  /dev/sda5 is my root partition and I can see certain partitions there called "tmpfs". I have no idea what they are doing there. Any help please?

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev                  5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /dev
run                   5.9G  1.3M  5.9G   1% /run
/dev/sda5         20G   19G  363M  99% /
tmpfs               5.9G  128K  5.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5.9G     0  5.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs               5.9G  502M  5.4G   9% /tmp
/dev/sda2        96M   63M   34M  65% /boot
/dev/sda8        99G   22G   73G  23% /home
tmpfs              1.2G   48K  1.2G   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda6       407G  390G   18G  96% /run/media/romeo/Nutifafa

edit: Oh and I've already removed all the orphaned packages and cleared the pacman cache

Last edited by rhomheow (2017-07-06 01:28:12)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Root partition almost full

ncdu is a great program for this kind of thing. Will help you track down what's taking up your space.

rhomheow

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Registered: 2017-05-02

Posts: 19

Re: Root partition almost full

ncdu is a great program for this kind of thing. Will help you track down what's taking up your space.

This is the output for that

.   7.7 GiB [######### ] /usr
.   1.0 GiB [#         ] /var
.  17.3 MiB [          ] /etc
   17.0 MiB [          ]  linux-4.9.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
!  16.0 KiB [          ] /lost+found
   12.0 KiB [          ] /srv
!   4.0 KiB [          ] /root
e   4.0 KiB [          ] /opt
e   4.0 KiB [          ] /mnt
!   4.0 KiB [          ] /jj
!   4.0 KiB [          ] /arch
!   4.0 KiB [          ] /System Volume Information
    4.0 KiB [          ]  .xinitrc
@   0.0   B [          ]  sbin
@   0.0   B [          ]  lib64
@   0.0   B [          ]  lib
@   0.0   B [          ]  bin
>   0.0   B [          ] /tmp
>   0.0   B [          ] /sys
>   0.0   B [          ] /run
>   0.0   B [          ] /proc
>   0.0   B [          ] /home
>   0.0   B [          ] /dev
>   0.0   B [          ] /boot

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Root partition almost full

You'll want to run it as root so you can access everything. At that point, choose an entry to drill down further.

Blasphemist

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From: Colorado

Registered: 2013-01-17

Posts: 160

Re: Root partition almost full

How long since the pacman cache has been cleaned?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … kage_cache

Most seldom if ever notice this but since your / partition is limited it is something you need to watch.

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