Arch Linux

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

Hi

I have a Arch Dekstop, with Beryl, KDE, and some minimalistic programs, but for some reason, the disk space is getting tighter and tighter. I deleted files that were not necesary, cleared browsing data cache and removed the local packages that pacman stores. And still it is not sufficient. Any ideas?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

My idea would be to find out exactly where the problem data is, and what is generating it. Once you have that, you can probably work out a solution - or at least post the details here.

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

You can try using filelight. It's a graphical du app. It will telll you which directories takes all the space.

Bangel

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 45

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

The /opt and the /usr and /usr/lib are very huge. Any ideas?

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

You'll need to be a bit more specific than that. Those are always big, dig down deeper.

Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

There are about a billion ways to do this.  I prefer this script I found years ago after reading Linux Sever Hacks:
As root, run:

find / -type d  | xargs du -sm | sort -g

The output is in Megs, so 1024=1 gig.  I'm frankly surprised that it isn't /var eating your space - it tends to be the culprit most of the time.

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Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

Oh, and the largest dirs will be on the bottom of the output so no need to pipe this to more.

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

also, clean your pacman cache, it's probably getting pretty big.

it's at /var/cache/pacman/pkg, though the preferred cleanup is pacman -Sc IIRC.

James

Alethos

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Registered: 2006-01-05

Posts: 84

Re: Disk Space Problem - Arch is gobbing up space

pacman -Sc cleans old packages
pacman -Scc cleans all packages which may help a little more.