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raxmax

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Registered: 2025-04-09

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] Root partition is filled up. What do I do?

I've been using Arch for a few months and my root partition has filled up. It is 32GB. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now.

lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0     1G  0 part /boot
├─sda2   8:2    0    32G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0 190.6G  0 part /home
sdb      8:16   0 931.5G  0 disk 
sdc      8:32   1     0B  0 disk 
sdd      8:48   1     0B  0 disk 
sde      8:64   1     0B  0 disk 
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
zram0  253:0    0     4G  0 disk [SWAP]

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df -Th
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev            devtmpfs   12G     0   12G   0% /dev
run            tmpfs      12G  1.6M   12G   1% /run
efivarfs       efivarfs  320K   23K  293K   8% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/sda2      ext4       32G   29G  1.3G  96% /
tmpfs          tmpfs      12G  616K   12G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-networkd.service
tmpfs          tmpfs      12G  4.0K   12G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1      vfat     1022M  173M  850M  17% /boot
/dev/sda3      ext4      187G   65G  113G  37% /home
tmpfs          tmpfs     2.4G  9.0M  2.4G   1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
tmpfs          tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service

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username@archlinux
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: HP Z230 Tower Workstation
Kernel: Linux 6.15.2-arch1-1
Uptime: 1 hour
Packages: 1231 (pacman), 23 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (HP E241i): 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz in 24" [External]
WM: Hyprland 0.49.0 (Wayland)
Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: Catppuccin-Mocha-Lavender (24px)
Terminal: kitty 0.42.1
Terminal Font: NotoSansMono-Regular (14pt)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 (8) @ 3.90 GHz
GPU: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller @ 1.20 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 2.92 GiB / 23.16 GiB (13%)
Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 28.33 GiB / 31.20 GiB (91%) - ext4
Disk (/home): 64.47 GiB / 186.52 GiB (35%) - ext4
Local IP (eno1): 192.168.1.195/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Last edited by raxmax (2025-06-29 10:09:36)

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Re: [SOLVED] Root partition is filled up. What do I do?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … filesystem

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raxmax

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Registered: 2025-04-09

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Root partition is filled up. What do I do?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … filesystem

Thanks!
Now I have 7 gigs free