[SOLVED]Partition / too full error in pacman

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-04 08:44:12

My root partition is set to 20G and I hadn't anticipated that I'd be installing a lot of software. I've cleared pacman cache as well, but that barely did anything. Is repartitioning the only way out of this?

Last edited by SlothSpunky77 (2023-03-17 05:32:30)

seth · 2023-03-04 09:08:36

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ncdu/

Is repartitioning the only way out of this?

If you need more space you need more space.

You can prevent the extraction of eg. unrequired i18n files, but whether or not that helps depends on the actual situation.

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-04 18:15:23

Now I'm curious. Why is it that guides on YouTube or on websites recommend allotting only about 15G of space for the root partition?

jasonwryan · 2023-03-04 18:25:27

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

Now I'm curious. Why is it that guides on YouTube or on websites recommend allotting only about 15G of space for the root partition?

Because the people that create those "guides" are idiots only interested in click farming...

bestfriend · 2023-03-04 20:19:01

What are you installing? If you have some particularly large softwares, you could create a separate partition for /opt and re-install them there or just install the software to home.

Trilby · 2023-03-04 22:09:42

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

I hadn't anticipated that I'd be installing a lot of software.

And did you anticipate incorrectly? I'm a broken record on this topic, I'm kinda tired of posting a long list of previous threads on this same topic - you can search and readily find them - but if you are not well aware of multiple massive packages that you have installed (e.g., tensorflow or 0ad as potential examples), a root partition of that size filling up is likely indicative of a cancer that should be treated, not just given more space to fill.

While I agree that youboob videos recommending a one-size fits all partition size are foolish, I would say as a counterpoint that for many common use cases 15GB would be okay, and for quite a larger portion of users 20GB should be plenty. Hence the previous point: if that space if filling and you are not aware of any of your needs being a bit out of the norm, investigate.

This may be particularly fitting if clearing the pacman cache really had very little effect. If large number of big packages were the issue, clearing the cache would not be a long term solution, but it would have resulted in a notable change. If clearing the cache had little effect, packages are not likely the problem, and so the odds of this being something concerning like exploding logs filled with error messages becomes a bit more likely.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-04 22:15:34)

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-05 05:02:51

bestfriend wrote:

What are you installing?

Nothing too heavy, actually. The heaviest I have are blender and minecraft, so that's barely anything. What's funny is that I installed Arch on this laptop about five days ago, and a full root partition is complete bs. It's as Trilby said, there's more to this.
ncdu doesn't show any abnormal disk usage though.

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-05 05:05:07

Trilby wrote:

exploding logs filled with error messages

Is that something that happens often to users? How can I check if that's what's happening with my system?

jasonwryan · 2023-03-05 05:35:39

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

How can I check if that's what's happening with my system?

pacman -S ncdu

Trilby · 2023-03-05 13:57:36

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

How can I check if that's what's happening with my system?

There's no single simple test ... well, actually for the specific case of checking whether the journal is growing massively there is, but my broader point is that you need to investigate. It could be the journal, it could be something else. The goal is to find what is taking up so much space. As you've seen in this thread, ncdu is often recommended. Personally I just use `du` iteratively. For example `du -hd1 /` should show only /usr and /var taking up any notably space on a basic desktop system, /etc/ and /boot/ may take a couple dozen to a hundred or so MB, but beyond that I'd look closely at them, and all other directories (in the filesystem root) should be really trivial (often not even a full MB).

So step one: is there anything other than /usr or /var that take up noteworthy space? If so, dig deeper into those suspects. If not, step two is to dig into each of /usr and /var. Which one to look at first may be obvious at this stage. If no other directories are eating notable space and you are runnning low on 20G, then one of /usr or /var would be using well over 10GB (or both of them using close to 10GB). Neither directory should be anywhere near that large on the system you are describing - certainly not /var. So dig into which ever one is suspect. Feel free to post data here (actual sizes of directories) for further guidance if needed.

It is possible that you are overlooking some large software you opted to install. But even if the end result is that the used space is justified and you need to expand your root partition, learning a bit about what is taking up space on your system is a useful experience.

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

ncdu doesn't show any abnormal disk usage though.

What does this actually mean. Does ncdu show 20GB used? If so, that strikes me as abnormal! The question isn't whether or not there is abnormal disk usage, but rather where it is most abnormal.

EDIT: Important caveate that I don't think has been explicitly clarified in this thread: I'm working on the assumption that you have a separate /home partition from the root (/) partition. Is this correct? If not, then forget everything I've said and accept my apologies for wasting time here. But if you don't have a separate /home partition I'd be curious how you've partitioned your disk as to have the option of choosing a different root partition size.

EDIT 2: Another potentially relevant tool is `pacgraph` which will show you the total space used by packages. If legitimate packages are really filling up your 20GB, this will show it - and it will let you know which packages you have installed that are really space hogs. It's possible my disk-space metrics are a bit out of touch: I've not installed one of the major DEs in ages, and gnome in particular seems to be growing (in size) at an astonishing rate. But even if my calibration is off, one should know a bit about what's using their disk space - so we either move from "I don't know why 20GB is filling up" to "I know why its full and it's a good reason" or "There's no good reason, and there's a problem to fix". Just never go from "I don't know why 20GB is filling up" to "I'll just add more space" - that's not a good approach.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-13 13:43:43)

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-09 07:15:08

You're right, it's only /usr and /var that takes up notable space. Here's a messed up situation: I've got my home directory inside my root directory

Yes, I do have a home partition. Using pacgraph shows that blender and gcc takes up a great deal of space. Otherwise, it's pretty normal. I don't use a DE, I use AwesomeWM, so ideally there shouldn't be bloat.
But the fact is, I have my home directory inside my root directory.
I remember making four partitions: EFI, Home, Root and Swap. I probably messed up when mounting it. I suppose there's no way to undo this. Is repartitioning the only way out?

skunktrader · 2023-03-09 07:34:11

Post your /etc/fstab so we can see if you are actually mounting your /home partition

skunktrader · 2023-03-09 07:37:19

If you do indeed have a separate /home partion, try running ncdu with the -x command line argument :: it will not cross file system boundaries and your home directory contents won't be included in the scan results

Trilby · 2023-03-09 13:28:44

Of course your home directory is in your root directory - where else could it be. But content on a home partition doesn't use any space on the root partition. I suppose I should have mentioned that in my instructions - the numbers for /home from `du` can be ignored (assuming your home partition is really mounted properly). But all this assuming and speculating and conditional advice is getting tedious. Post actual data. If you don't post actual data here, no one will be able to help you.

We knew that /usr and /var would take up the bulk of the space on the root partition, but just how much space is each taking? Does their usage account for the 20GB being full? If not, the problem lies elsewhere, if so, dig deeper into those directories as they shouldn't be that big. Alternatively does the size of the home directory along with everything else add up to 20GB? If so, that would suggest that you are not mounting your home partition. If the home directory is greater than 20GB, then obviously you are.

Now post some actual numbers.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-09 13:36:09)

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-12 17:56:42

Here's my /etc/fstab:

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/nvme0n1p2
UUID=9081d853-3c3c-4ec0-88c9-44b8887be122	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p3
UUID=f01d4c4a-66ca-4479-90f2-9938bf9ada5a	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p4
UUID=b822261d-823b-4253-81a6-5fa01f33e887	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

/usr takes 9.7G, /home takes 5.4G, /var takes 3.1G and /opt takes 516.9M. The rest are pretty insignificant.

Last edited by SlothSpunky77 (2023-03-13 05:05:38)

Trilby · 2023-03-12 19:40:49

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

/usr takes 9.7G, /home takes 5.4G, /var takes 3.1G and /opt takes 516.9G. The rest are pretty insignificant.

Obviously that's a typo for /opt, but it's not clear at all what the typo actually would be. Is it 5.169G, or 516.9M, or ... In any case, your /usr is quite large, excessively so for how you've described your system.

Please post the actual output of each of the following:

df -h
# the next two with sudo or as root
du -hd1 / 2>/dev/null
du -hd1 /usr/

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-13 07:46:45

My bad, I meant 516.9M.
Here's the output for df -h:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             7.6G     0  7.6G   0% /dev
run             7.6G  1.8M  7.6G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2   15G   14G  400M  98% /
tmpfs           7.6G     0  7.6G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7.6G  512K  7.6G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p3  452G  5.5G  423G   2% /home
tmpfs           1.6G   20K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

du -hd1 / 2>/dev/null:

4.0K	/mnt
112K	/root
517M	/opt
5.5G	/home
198M	/boot
9.6M	/etc
9.7G	/usr
0	/proc
16K	/lost+found
3.2G	/var
12K	/srv
1.8M	/run
512K	/tmp
0	/sys
0	/dev
19G	/

du -hd1 /usr/:

5.1G	/usr/lib
218M	/usr/i686-w64-mingw32
719M	/usr/bin
2.5G	/usr/share
40K	/usr/local
6.0M	/usr/src
731M	/usr/lib32
316M	/usr/include
80K	/usr/libexec
231M	/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32
9.7G	/usr/

/lib takes 5G and /share takes 2.5G inside /usr. The rest take less than a GB each.

Last edited by SlothSpunky77 (2023-03-13 07:50:37)

seth · 2023-03-13 08:12:15

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman … #With_size
expac should be considerably faster

Trilby · 2023-03-13 13:41:27

Okay, so first, your root partition isn't 20GB, it's 15GB. I'd argue that 15GB should still be enough for basic desktop systems, but it's certainly a narrower margin than with 20GB.

Your /usr/lib and /usr/share are quite large - especially relative to your /usr/bin size. This strikes me as a bit odd. However, I have no real experience with mingw which you have installed. If mingw packages store content in /usr/lib and /usr/share that could account for the large size of these directories - and if that is the case, the usage would seem legitimate. These paths are unlikely sites for common problematic growths (e.g., overflowing logs), so at present the balance of evidence is leaning towards this being legitimate disk usage.

However, an expac report as noted above would be quite useful at this point.

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-13 13:43:00)

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-14 04:19:40

Running expac -H M '%m\t%n' | sort -h:

0.67 MiB	python-idna
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35.20 MiB	python-numpy
35.50 MiB	lib32-icu
36.30 MiB	gtk2
36.54 MiB	ffmpeg
36.57 MiB	mingw-w64-binutils
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39.06 MiB	ghostscript
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40.59 MiB	icu
41.13 MiB	binutils
47.46 MiB	glibc
48.78 MiB	gtk3
49.11 MiB	openimagedenoise
51.03 MiB	ttf-hanazono
52.98 MiB	guile
55.19 MiB	nodejs
55.19 MiB	python
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56.57 MiB	opensubdiv
57.99 MiB	vlc
59.79 MiB	perl
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62.85 MiB	efl
62.99 MiB	qt5-base
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70.42 MiB	cmake
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99.24 MiB	jre8-openjdk-headless
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118.16 MiB	mingw-w64-headers
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130.09 MiB	lib32-llvm-libs
137.78 MiB	gcc-libs
143.34 MiB	openvdb
145.62 MiB	linux-lts-headers
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152.30 MiB	linux-firmware
157.54 MiB	krita
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175.82 MiB	linux
181.59 MiB	jre-openjdk-headless
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195.64 MiB	go
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332.77 MiB	visual-studio-code-bin
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540.69 MiB	wine-staging

seth · 2023-03-14 05:33:22

~9.3GB in total, the cake goes to

182.04 MiB	discord
194.61 MiB	clang
195.64 MiB	go
210.67 MiB	wine-gecko
233.68 MiB	wine-mono
239.61 MiB	firefox
291.21 MiB	opera
332.77 MiB	visual-studio-code-bin
453.12 MiB	blender
540.69 MiB	wine-staging

and minecraft doesn't even show up there?

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SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-14 10:52:03

I removed minecraft and minGW from my system because I didn't need either of them. I suppose there isn't abnormal disk usage on my system judging by the usage analysis. I'm still worried about whether the home partition's been mounted correctly or not. Should i transfer all data to a hard drive and do a fresh install? What are my alternatives?

seth · 2023-03-14 11:00:15

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2089793 says that the home partition is mounted to /home and currently uses 5.5G
This also fits your fstab

You can grow the root partiton on the expense of the home partition.
As that involves shrinking and moving the home partition, you'll ideally use gparted which provides a frontend for the process.
Nevertheless, it'll be a *VERY* good idea to have backups of your private data.

Either way, you'll have to do this offline (ie. from a live distro, gparted provides one and I think grml has gparted as well)

Trilby · 2023-03-14 13:44:30

SlothSpunky77 wrote:

I suppose there isn't abnormal disk usage on my system judging by the usage analysis.

Agreed. My suspicions were incorrect. Your installed software is legitimately using that space. If you don't use that software, you could certainly do some clean up - but this together with the fact that your root is currently 15G not 20G favors resizing if practical.

SlothSpunky77 · 2023-03-15 10:00:26

Alrighty, repartitioning is the way to go then. One last question, how do I know if I've mounted the home partition correctly (or any partition for that matter)? Is there anything else I have to do or check before I allot space to the root partition from the home partition?

Last edited by SlothSpunky77 (2023-03-15 10:03:09)

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