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My / partition is full and I'm not sure how to free up space. I know that I've seen a solution before but I can't seem to find it. I have tried doing pacman-optimize and cleaning out old / large log files but I have not freed up enough space. Suggestions?
[compiz@arch ~]$ firefox
** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-compiz'
aborting...
Aborted
[compiz@arch ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3 9.7G 9.3G 0 100% /
none 1013M 0 1013M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 997M 11M 935M 2% /boot
/dev/sdb4 60G 4.4G 53G 8% /home
Edit: solved
Last edited by M177ER (2009-08-18 22:49:04)
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Delete the crap you don't use?
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# pacman -Scc
That will remove all downloaded (cached) packages which should free up quite a bit if you haven't run it in a while. If you'd rather remove only the packages you no longer have installed, use this instead:
# pacman -Sc
thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca
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Like what exactly? What I mean is what and how am I looking for it? I don't think I have a lot of extra installed packages that I don't use.
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Thanks Thayer that is what I needed to do.
Last edited by M177ER (2009-08-17 21:25:24)
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you could use:
du -x / | sort -n -r | head -n 40
to see what directories are taking up the most space. then you can figure out what you can delete. as mentioned above the package cache is probably the key.
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BTW the '-x' is what stops it from looking in the non-root filesystems
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pizmooz has the right idea using du. If you'd prefer a "graphical" version of du, try ncdu in the AUR. It is very cool allowing you to see what is using the FS space. Additionally, you can delete (if you ran it w/ a user who has permissions to delete) within the shell. Have a look at it!
CPU-optimized Linux-ck packages @ Repo-ck • AUR packages • Zsh and other configs
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You could also examine the results of a find that looked in your /usr/bin for access times older than some amount of time (three months, a year, etc.) and consider removing those applications, if they give enough of a space buffer.
Last edited by majiq (2009-08-18 02:20:32)
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In my 'green' days with arch - I would make /var a symlink to a bigger fs (and yes, I did start with root being 8-10 gigs - these days I use 20). However, I would think that 'pacman -Scc' should do the trick (and keep doing it!!) - you dont really _need_ the installed packages.
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the cache these days is almost useless with the advent of the A.R.M. and a fast net connection.
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Thanks everyone. Cleaning the cache worked. I looked at pizmooz's method as well and didn't find anything out of the ordinary.
Marking as solved.
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