not enough free disk space, change file system from fat32 to ext4

rrodrickk · 2024-07-04 16:50:29

Everyone who is trying to help is very welcome.
This is my first post in here so excuse my lack of correct terms and knowledge.
I'm relatively new to this world of linux,especially ARCH, I'm about to enter university, and I'm trying to get used to this place meanwhile I'm in highschool break.
(I'm dual booting into a external USB type C ssd - FTWAI its a ROG Strix Arion S500)
After trying to install pycharm, or updating the packages using [ sudo pacman -Syu ]appears this error:
[error: Partition / too full: 641315 blocks needed, 292819 blocks free
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.]

After reading some threads, I think the problem is that my partition where root is located is too small, I've installed arch with arch install and maybe I've selected some partition setting they have put and never changed, I think.

Other thing i think I have done wrong was somehow using the filesystem as fat32, I've read some other threads and you guys dont seem to recomend it, recomending ext4 instead.

All the help is welcome and thanks for creating this forum, it's been so helpful so far

Nikolai5 · 2024-07-04 17:10:35

Yes, as far as I understand you can't run Linux on FAT, I would recommend instead to use ext4 for the root system.
The boot partition is a different story but you didn't mention that so I won't go into it.

Did you follow the installation guide on the wiki? The guide demonstrates setting it to ext4, so what made you make the decision not to use that?

rrodrickk · 2024-07-04 17:19:32

Nikolai5 wrote:

Yes, as far as I understand you can't run Linux on FAT, I would recommend instead to use ext4 for the root system.
The boot partition is a different story but you didn't mention that so I won't go into it.
Did you follow the installation guide on the wiki? The guide demonstrates setting it to ext4, so what made you make the decision not to use that?

I just followed a yt video to install the linux.

I've made that decision based on what I've seen on some threads. (THIS ONE: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213961)

I didn't mention but I think thats the problem,if I use the command "lsblk" it shows this:
[ NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
|-sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
|-sda3 8:3 0 237.4G 0 part
`-sda4 8:4 0 999M 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
|-sdb1 8:17 0 1G 0 part /boot
|-sdb2 8:18 0 20G 0 part /
`-sdb3 8:19 0 444.8G 0 part /home
zram0 254:0 0 3.7G 0 disk [SWAP] ]

Do you recomend formating everything and following the guide on wiki?

THANKS FOR THE FAST RESPONSE!

Last edited by rrodrickk (2024-07-04 17:20:42)

Nikolai5 · 2024-07-04 17:29:15

It generally isn't recommended to follow guides from random articles and videos, especially for something as critical as installing the system. The information can be outdated or incorrect.

The guide on the wiki is the best place to go, just take your time and read through the notes and info on there rather than just copying the commands, try to understand why you're running the commands it tells you to run. It's not as fast as running a fancy script someone made, but i t will mean your system is not only set up correctly, but you will know how it works.

I would personally start from scratch yes, if this is something you're playing with while on break then you can take your time, follow the instructions, and you'll learn a lot more. Also, following the guide will mean people here will be more receptive to helping, it's frowned upon to follow random guides and blindly run scripts. One of the big plus points of Arch is the comprehensive wiki.

rrodrickk · 2024-07-04 17:45:51

Thanks for the words, it really brought my tears.

Maybe because, I'm dual booting, the FAT that it's reading it's from the windows I have installed on the PC. Could it be?

Funny0facer · 2024-07-04 17:59:26

You can paste the output of

lsblk -f

here. This way we can see, what is actually mounted with the right filesystem.
And please use code brackets for the output. Check the link at "BBCode" for how to use it.

rrodrickk · 2024-07-04 19:29:13

Funny0facer wrote:

You can paste the output of
lsblk -f
here. This way we can see, what is actually mounted with the right filesystem.
And please use code brackets for the output. Check the link at "BBCode" for how to use it.

NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                                
|-sda1      vfat   FAT32       51D4-7C6E                             966.1M     5% /boot
|-sda2      ext4   1.0         8ee6a6b5-38ea-4b05-b2ab-797fce8a706b    1.1G    89% /
`-sda3      ext4   1.0         8adf6872-1c22-4916-adc7-d59771f4862e  409.7G     1% /home
zram0                                                                              [SWAP]
nvme0n1                                                                            
|-nvme0n1p1 vfat   FAT32       1081-3A15                                           
|-nvme0n1p2                                                                        
|-nvme0n1p3 ntfs               7C0281E70281A6AC                      134.9G    71% /run/media/user/7C0281E70281A6AC
`-nvme0n1p4 ntfs               FC5289F95289B942

Funny0facer · 2024-07-05 05:55:38

1. very good. you are actually already using ext4 for your root directory.
2. try to clean you paccache first. ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … kage_cache )
3. for a beginner, it might be the easiest way to use Gparted in a live environment to extend "/". Make sure you have a backup of everything valuable.
Depending, on how regularly you want to clean up your system and on what you want to install, another 10G - 20G might be enough.

PS: you do not need to cite people if your post is just the next one.

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#1 2024-07-04 16:50:29

not enough free disk space, change file system from fat32 to ext4

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