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kyrus21

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Registered: 2025-09-24

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Partition splitted

hi, recently i was trying to update some packages but i can’t do it due to memory problems (i don’t remember the terminal error now) and i noticed that i have the main partition splitted in other 2 “partitions” one of 20Gib and another with the rest of the memory, and when i install or update the packages this memory was getting filled and i needed to clean the pacman cache to restore some memory to live. i believed that was an error that i did during the arch installation, so i reinstalled arch by archinstall (in the partition settings before installing arch i have choose the “best partition settings” (or something similar) option ). after that , as you can see from the image (that you can see on this post https://www.reddit.com/r/arch/comments/ … splitted/), the problem remains and i don’t know how to fix this. (i tried to do lsblk on terminal and i have a 953G nvme0n1 splitted into nvme0n1p1 and nvme0n1p2 this is splitted in other two part named ArchinstallVg-root and ArchinstallVg-home and idk what does it means).

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Partition splitted

I think the "Vg" refers to volume groups: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM

If you share the archinstall log we can see exactly what has been done.

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