space problem - not enough space...

ironwiller · 2009-01-18 13:09:53

hi...i ve left it without checking it at all...and now from 20GB hdd...almost 9 GB home directory ....i have only 180MB left of space...

ive already delete from pacman/pkg with pacman -Sc the uninstalled files and empty the trash bin.,...

nothing seems to be in the main tmp directory

also i ve run sweeper to empty everything else...

while i was checking the directories i detect that usr its more than 3,5 GB....is it normal?

i ve got kde4 and gnome inside...pacman/pkg is 1.5GB.....

what should i do to free space...without uninstalling programs...or is it not possible?

ty in advanced

xaiviax · 2009-01-18 13:32:57

kde4 and gnome together is a lot to have if you're limited to 20gb.

Mr.Elendig · 2009-01-18 13:47:17

pacman -Scc to clear the whole cache, check /var for large log files, remove apps you don't need.

peets · 2009-01-18 17:46:09

I found 4GB of old packages I'd installed from AUR in /var/abs/local once. It's kind of useless to keep the tarball and the build directory once the package is installed... you might want to check for that too.

ironwiller · 2009-01-18 20:49:59

peets wrote:

I found 4GB of old packages I'd installed from AUR in /var/abs/local once. It's kind of useless to keep the tarball and the build directory once the package is installed... you might want to check for that too.

i dont have a folder /var/abs/

?

fwojciec · 2009-01-18 20:54:45

You're not going to have /var/abs folder if you don't use ABS and you don't have abs package installed.

But first of all you need to determine what's taking up all the space: du command is useful for this, something like "du -shc /*" as root is probably a good place to start.

kludge · 2009-01-18 21:41:36

Mr.Elendig wrote:

check /var for large log files

+1

i once woke up to find my harddrive was full because of a filesystem i/o error produced by a backup routine that had been trying to run all night on an external that had powered off mid-transfer. those errors went into /var/log/{everything,messages,error}.log, and by morning that was on the order of 8 gigs.

cerbie · 2009-01-19 00:25:58

Also, check out baobab (package: gnome-utils) and xdiskusage. Both are GUI apps to show disk space by directory, allowing you to burrow down a bit easier than du.

Last edited by cerbie (2009-01-19 00:32:22)

Renan Birck · 2009-01-19 03:22:08

Try ncdu (it is in AUR), it is a nice command-line app which is an "user-friendlier" version of du. It's useful for me everytime I want to clean my hard drive up (often, as I am a free space freak)

.:B:. · 2009-01-19 15:14:47

Throw out one of those DEs and you'll have a lot more space already . There's choice and variation but there's also reality - and your 'small' HD is the reality. So learn to cope with it. I have 32 GB SSD here in my laptop, and 24 GB of it is split out to /home.

It's always a good idea to split out /var (I have it on a 2 GB partition but 3 GB is often the recommended size), so inflating log files won't grind your system to a halt (as someone said a simple recurring I/O error can do a lot - I once changed an ACPI setting that blew up my /var partition within a few days).

ironwiller · 2009-01-20 14:38:18

ty all for your help.
i throw out KDE since i have it already in my desktop so now i have 5 GB free....yeah!!!

my hdd is 60GB which of it i ve split 20 GB to linux . i had from before windows with 40GB..
so i 'll be carefull from now on with that...
the program helped a lot to clear up and see what is where...

thanks again to all

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