Arch Linux

lethalfang

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Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 5

Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

First timer Arch user here, just managed to install Arch Linux on my 2nd hard drive and got Gnome to work! Cool! Hope it'll be exciting!

It hasn't become a problem yet, but I guess the first question is that, is there a way to "merge" the root partition and the home partition? I used the recommended/default setting of leaving 7.5 GB for the root partition, and half of it is already used up, but I've a bunch of empty space in the /home partition. As I install more programs in the root partition, am I going to run out of space pretty soon?

Thanks!

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

I believe 7.5GB for / is enough

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sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

Well you can create a folder in your /home , let's say "pkg" then edit your /etc/pacman.conf :
and change your CacheDir    = /home/username/pkg

Actually i keep my packages in a separate partition of 200gigs which is also mostly full now , I have age old packages lying around

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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

7.5 GB is fine for root.  You might consider a separate /var as most of the space will be used by your /var/cache/  Download ncdu and use it to analyze your system. You'll see where the largest use is with it:

 pacman -S ncdu
# ncdu /

To manage partitions without deleting them, use gparted.  See the following wiki pages:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GParted
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gparted-Live

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lethalfang

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Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 5

Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

Well you can create a folder in your /home , let's say "pkg" then edit your /etc/pacman.conf :
and change your CacheDir    = /home/username/pkg

Actually i keep my packages in a separate partition of 200gigs which is also mostly full now , I have age old packages lying around

Hey, that sounds like a simple enough solution! Thanks!

ybotspawn

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From: Oz

Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 140

Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

Good times and congrats, the first install is always the roughest, it gets to be a piece of cake after that

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chocolatl56

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 7

Re: Woot, just installed Arch Linux!

Definitely!  I just installed too...  Good luck on Arch!  I've had a good time so far!:D

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