unable to run pacman -Syu | parition / too full

heytbone · 2024-04-17 15:18:25

Hello, I'm getting the following errors when trying to update my system using pacman, I can't seem to install anything since it's listing my partition as full. I have a 500gb drive in and haven't filled much of anything. Here's what happens when I try to run pacman -Syu:

Total Download Size:   1875.93 MiB
Total Installed Size:  5766.68 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        84.37 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
error: Partition / too full: 485522 blocks needed, 0 blocks free
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Here are the results of lsblk, and I'm running luks encryption on the drive. So, I'm not sure if things are being problematic from volgroup0 where it's 475GB in size, but I haven't installed

NAME                    MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                     7:0    0     4K  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
loop1                     7:1    0  74.1M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1033
loop2                     7:2    0  74.2M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1122
loop3                     7:3    0   497M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-42-2204/141
loop4                     7:4    0  91.7M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
loop5                     7:5    0  70.9M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/runelite/26
loop6                     7:6    0  70.9M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/runelite/27
loop7                     7:7    0  40.4M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/20671
loop8                     7:8    0  39.1M  1 loop  /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/21184
nvme0n1                 259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1             259:1    0   512M  0 part
├─nvme0n1p2             259:2    0   512M  0 part  /boot
└─nvme0n1p3             259:3    0 475.9G  0 part
  └─volgroup0           254:0    0 475.9G  0 crypt
    ├─volgroup0-lv_root 254:1    0    30G  0 lvm   /
    └─volgroup0-lv_home 254:2    0 445.9G  0 lvm   /home

Here's the results of df:

Filesystem                    1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
dev                            16367028        0  16367028   0% /dev
run                            16382940     1688  16381252   1% /run
efivarfs                            192       48       140  26% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/mapper/volgroup0-lv_root  30787492 30251044         0 100% /
tmpfs                          16382940     8196  16374744   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                          16382940        8  16382932   1% /tmp
/dev/loop0                          128      128         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/bare/5
/dev/loop1                        75904    75904         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1033
/dev/loop2                        76032    76032         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/core22/1122
/dev/loop3                       508928   508928         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-42-2204/141
/dev/loop4                        93952    93952         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1535
/dev/loop5                        72704    72704         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/runelite/26
/dev/loop6                        72704    72704         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/runelite/27
/dev/loop7                        41472    41472         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/20671
/dev/loop8                        40064    40064         0 100% /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/21184
/dev/nvme0n1p2                   498900   331836    130368  72% /boot
/dev/mapper/volgroup0-lv_home 459120760 11755596 423969632   3% /home
tmpfs                           3276588       52   3276536   1% /run/user/1000

Last edited by heytbone (2024-04-17 16:38:28)

seth · 2024-04-17 15:36:39

Please use [code][/code] tags, not "quote" tags. Edit your post in this regard.

Your root partition is "only" 30GB (parrot protests in 3…2…) but that might actually be enough (unless you're trying to install 3 desktop environments and a bunch of games - the snap things there could be consumer)

du -hs /var/cache

and then just try to

sudo pacman -Scc # which will clear the pacamn cache

Re-check

df -h

and if your root partition has plenty of space gained, enjoy our update.

heytbone · 2024-04-17 16:56:13

Yeah, that worked. Thank you.

With snap being a resource hog, would recommend to get rid of that then?

seth · 2024-04-17 17:04:01

sPlease 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.

Wrt. well do you *need* it?
If not, why is it there?
If yes, how would you go about removing it?

Trilby · 2024-04-17 17:31:33

I'd always recommend getting rid of snap - completely independent of it being a resource hog.

But if you have use for it and want to use it - by all means keep it, but you'd then probably want to expand your root partition which you should be able to do readily given it's a LVM.

Arch Linux

#1 2024-04-17 15:18:25

unable to run pacman -Syu | parition / too full

#2 2024-04-17 15:36:39

Re: unable to run pacman -Syu | parition / too full

#3 2024-04-17 16:56:13

Re: unable to run pacman -Syu | parition / too full

#4 2024-04-17 17:04:01

Re: unable to run pacman -Syu | parition / too full

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