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dejakaymac

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Registered: 2011-10-19

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root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

Can anyone explain why this is?

df
Filesystem                                             1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                                                       10240        0     10240   0% /dev
run                                                        10240      596      9644   6% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/041fef4d-ebc5-4e25-b38c-2f6a0fafafef   7566432  7419700         0 100% /
shm                                                       958956     1600    957356   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                                                     958956       12    958944   1% /tmp
/dev/sda4                                              232433560 68292028 152334564  31% /home
/dev/sda1                                                 101086    18635     77232  20% /boot

Last edited by dejakaymac (2011-10-20 08:28:40)

graysky

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Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

You can...

# pacman -S ncdu
<<< then >>>
# ncdu -x /

Last edited by graysky (2011-10-19 19:44:10)

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shwick

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Registered: 2010-09-16

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Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

This happened to me yesterday. Check the size of your ~/.thunderbird folder.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

Can anyone explain why this is?

Sure: you have too much stuff there. If you''ve installed a ton of packages maybe you need a bigger / partition.

Check for some rogue logs growing to a couple GB.

Padfoot

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Registered: 2010-09-03

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Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

Can anyone explain why this is?

Sure: you have too much stuff there. If you''ve installed a ton of packages maybe you need a bigger / partition.

Check for some rogue logs growing to a couple GB.

Or, if you have been doing a lot of experimenting with different apps, ie. installing and removing to find what you like, your package cache might be quite large.

pacman -Sc will clean it up for you.

Cheers.

dejakaymac

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Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 9

Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

Thanks for your your responses.
I think the problem is that I accepted the auto prepare default partitioning scheme on the install disc (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … to_prepare).
The default root size of 7.5 Gb is just much too small for me. Also, a default swap partition of 256 Mb is probably too small to use the desktop environment suspend function. In my opinion the default configuration is aimed at an unusual user.

Solution: resize my partitions.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: root filesystem reporting full [SOLVED]

n my opinion the default configuration is aimed at an unusual user.

We've had this discussion a couple times already.
Arch is aimed at competent Linux users who know what they want, they will most likely partition their drives themselves.
For many users the default setup is good enough. If you use light apps and run 'pacman -Sc' once in a while you won't need more that those 7 GB. I'm currently using just 3 GB.