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7thSon

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[SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

So I see that my / keeps filling up, and is now at 93% full and climbing. This is because of updates downloaded by pacman, as I dont download or create big files otherwise on the filesystem. How can I clean up or keep this space under control so that I don't end up with a completely full root folder? What are good practices for this?

Last edited by 7thSon (2017-08-18 05:56:30)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

You just delete packages you deem unnecessary from the cache?
You could conduct a find to only delete files older than a certain time or whatever - there's no best practice.

After a "major" update I wait for the next reboot, ensure that I still got network and then just nuke the pacman cache. If I really ever feel like I need older package versions later on, I'd fetch them from the archives.

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Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

You could create a pacman hook that calls the required paccache commands after every update.

Edit - I knew I'd seen it somewhere...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1694743

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

I'd start with using paccache to leave in place all but the current versions and one more of all packages.

# paccache -rk 1

Then evaluate how much that helped and see if you need to look elsewhere for space.

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7thSon

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

Thanks!

paccache -rk 1

This just recovered 5GiB of space on my root partition, so now I'm back to pretty reasonable levels.

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

I'd start with using paccache to leave in place all but the current versions and one more of all packages.

# paccache -rk 1

Your advice doesn't match your command.  To acheive that you should be using -rk2 not -rk1.  -ruk0 is also useful to get rid of all cached packages that are no longer installed.

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Blasphemist

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Re: [SOLVED ]How to manage disk space on /

Your advice doesn't match your command.  To acheive that you should be using -rk2 not -rk1.  -ruk0 is also useful to get rid of all cached packages that are no longer installed.

Thanks for picking me up!

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