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goodboyneon

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[SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

While trying to update all my packages, I got this error:

error: Partition / too full: 117573 blocks needed, 28425 blocks free
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Being a newbie, I am not too familiar with the error. I started getting these after when I re-installed Arch Linux in order to use a separate partition for /home. Before this, I was able to resolve the error by clearing the cache via: 

paccahe -r 1

But now, it doesn't work.

Last edited by goodboyneon (2023-07-05 03:51:03)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

How are you determining that "evem though enough disk space is available"?

goodboyneon

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

How are you determining that "evem though enough disk space is available"?

Apologies for the typo, I know I have enough disk space as this is the output of df:

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs            4096        0      4096   0% /dev
tmpfs            3024724    18200   3006524   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs            1209892     9336   1200556   1% /run
/dev/sda2       19949168 18422928    487548  98% /
/dev/loop0           128      128         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
/dev/loop1         57088    57088         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2751
/dev/loop2         64896    64896         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1852
/dev/loop3         65024    65024         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core20/1891
/dev/loop4         57088    57088         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2785
/dev/loop6         75648    75648         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/750
/dev/loop5         74752    74752         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/607
/dev/loop7        168832   168832         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/198
/dev/loop8        358144   358144         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-38-2004/140
/dev/loop9        471808   471808         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-42-2204/105
/dev/loop10       477824   477824         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-42-2204/111
/dev/loop11        93952    93952         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
/dev/loop12        89216    89216         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/nordpass/162
/dev/loop13        89216    89216         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/nordpass/163
/dev/loop14        54528    54528         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/18933
/dev/loop15        54656    54656         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/19361
/dev/loop16       160896   160896         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/spotify/64
/dev/loop17       161664   161664         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/spotify/67
tmpfs            3024728    12508   3012220   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1         522204   128668    393536  25% /boot
/dev/sda3      962737024 26893096 886865908   3% /home
tmpfs             604944       24    604920   1% /run/user/1000

Last edited by goodboyneon (2023-07-03 02:44:59)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

Please use [code][/code] tags, not "quote" tags. Edit your post in this regard (you'll see why)
The df output very clearly suggests that you're extremely short on space on the root partition - the difference is probably some temporary files, check df while you're getting the error.

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goodboyneon

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

Please use [code][/code] tags, not "quote" tags. Edit your post in this regard (you'll see why)
The df output very clearly suggests that you're extremely short on space on the root partition - the difference is probably some temporary files, check df while you're getting the error.

Oh, I see,  tag makes the font monospaced!

I thought the packages were stored in /home. Now, how do I add more space to the root directory? I definitely don't need the amount of space I have in /home.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Parted … partitions
* Offline
* Involves moving the /home partition sda3, what is prone to data loss
  * HAVE BACKUPS
  * use the GUI frontend that abstracts the process, if you have tio ask how to repartition the disk, it's way less error-prone than you

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

As a work around, you might try pacman -Sc and see how much space that clears up.  It removes things from your pacman cache that are no longer installed.  Having realized I 've not done this for a while, I just ran it and it cleared out about 80 GB.

The next step would be pacman -Scc which removes the entire cache.  This means you cannot readily downgrade any installed packages.   And, that space will fill up again over time as packages are upgraded.

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goodboyneon

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

As a work around, you might try pacman -Sc and see how much space that clears up.  It removes things from your pacman cache that are no longer installed.  Having realized I 've not done this for a while, I just ran it and it cleared out about 80 GB.

The next step would be pacman -Scc which removes the entire cache.  This means you cannot readily downgrade any installed packages.   And, that space will fill up again over time as packages are upgraded.

That did work! Thanks for your tip

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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goodboyneon

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

How do I edit the title? It's kind of hard to navigate the UI, I am unable to find the edit button

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition / too full error, enough disk space avaliable

Lower right corner, https://bbs.archlinux.org/edit.php?id=2107601

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