Clean up the system

sense · 2008-04-13 06:28:25

I have been using Archlinux for almost a year now. I started to notice that my root filesystem size has been increasing. It now stays at 6GB. I wanted to know if there are any ways of cleaning up the system of leftover files.

I asked in irc and read in newsletter about pacman -Qdt and removed all orphan files. I still cant believe 6GB has been filled. Is it possible for pacman to list the packages in the order of decreasing size?

Have anybody faced a problem like this ? What should be the approach to cleanup the sytem?

Allan · 2008-04-13 06:33:44

Maybe you have a lot of old files in your package cache. Try a "pacman -Sc" to remove old packages and a "pacman -Scc" to remove all pacakges from your cache.

sense · 2008-04-13 06:43:17

That cleaned up 300MB. It seems I have installed a *lot* of packages. Can pacman output the packages in the order of decreasing size?

Oops, or is any other approach ?

SiD · 2008-04-13 07:26:51

pacman -Qet

lists packages that were installed explicity and are not required by any other package.
Maybe you find some packages you don't need anymore this way.

shining · 2008-04-13 08:47:45

sense wrote:

That cleaned up 300MB. It seems I have installed a *lot* of packages. Can pacman output the packages in the order of decreasing size?

pacman can't, but there are many ways to do it. A simple script using pacman, or using directly /var/lib/pacman, or a tool using libalpm.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 78#p320678

sense · 2008-04-13 08:59:45

Whoa! I removed all those packages that were'nt used, and now, the root filesystem size is 3.9GB. Yay! thanks.:cool:

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