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Elvish Legion

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Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 53

/ gets filled

Maybe I have partitioned wrong but when I set up a chroot my / (root) partition pretty much gets filled

How big of a root should I have? Normally I got with 8192 (8gigs) but it doesn't seem to do any good (or I'm doing something wrong)

I have a 120 gig hard drive for now, I was thinking maybe 10-20 gigs for root but that seems like a lot

Edit:

Normally I install opera and wine and then mplayer and plugins for opera in the chroot, I could do with just wine (or cedegacvs) if I could get it setup with no chroot

Last edited by Elvish Legion (2008-01-16 22:44:23)

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: / gets filled

I have 7 G for root and with KDE and a whole lot of niceties only consumes 42%. My be your are doing something wrong...
Check what's eating the space with du -h /dirname

R.

Elvish Legion

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Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 53

Re: / gets filled

I have 7 G for root and with KDE and a whole lot of niceties only consumes 42%. My be your are doing something wrong...
Check what's eating the space with du -h /dirname

R.

So my 8192 should be more than enough then?

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: / gets filled

My / is

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             9.2G  4.6G  4.2G  52% /

(/boot, /tmp and /home are in separate partitions).  My chroot takes up 628M of the 4.6G used in /.

X/ax

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From: Oost vlaanderen, Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-13

Posts: 275

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Re: / gets filled

Mine is 7g, with 2.43g free. I've got xfce, fluxbox, e17, openoffice, some games, and a quite lot of applications in there.
What might help (if your pc is on for a while), is to delete (or clean out selectively) your log files (/var/log), I used to have lots of problems with that in ubuntu and SuSE... (And on my previous install - slackware - I was just in time removing about 10g of logfiles, don't ask...)

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sejjiin

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 9

Re: / gets filled

pacman -S filelight

Filelight is a graphical program that gives you a very easy way to check where your space is going.

Last edited by sejjiin (2008-01-17 16:36:17)

kakTuZ

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 86

Re: / gets filled

I recently hacked

pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}' \
| xargs -i pacman -Qi {} \
| awk 'BEGIN {} \
    /Name/ {name=$3} \
    /Installationsgröße/ {size=$3;dim=$4; print size " " dim " : " name} \
    END {}' \
| sort -n

together, which lists your packages ordered by size

Note that you have to change "Installationsgröße" (==installsize) to what that line is called in your localized version.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: / gets filled

kakTuZ:

Do you want to add that over here -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 65#p306065 ?

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