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M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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[Solved] / partition is full

My / partition is full and I'm not sure how to free up space. I know that I've seen a solution before but I can't seem to find it. I have tried doing pacman-optimize and cleaning out old / large log files but I have not freed up enough space. Suggestions?

[compiz@arch ~]$ firefox
** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-compiz'
aborting...
Aborted
[compiz@arch ~]$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3             9.7G  9.3G     0 100% /
none                 1013M     0 1013M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1             997M   11M  935M   2% /boot
/dev/sdb4              60G  4.4G   53G   8% /home

Edit: solved

Last edited by M177ER (2009-08-18 22:49:04)

Arm-the-Homeless

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

Delete the crap you don't use?

thayer

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

# pacman -Scc

That will remove all downloaded (cached) packages which should free up quite a bit if you haven't run it in a while.  If you'd rather remove only the packages you no longer have installed, use this instead:

# pacman -Sc

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M177ER

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

Like what exactly? What I mean is what and how am I looking for it? I don't think I have a lot of extra installed packages that I don't use.

Edit:
Thanks Thayer that is what I needed to do.

Last edited by M177ER (2009-08-17 21:25:24)

pizmooz

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

you could use:

du -x / | sort -n -r | head -n 40

to see what directories are taking up the most space.  then you can figure out what you can delete.  as mentioned above the package cache is probably the key.

pizmooz

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

BTW the '-x' is what stops it from looking in the non-root filesystems

graysky

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

pizmooz has the right idea using du.  If you'd prefer a "graphical" version of du, try ncdu in the AUR.  It is very cool allowing you to see what is using the FS space.  Additionally, you can delete (if you ran it w/ a user who has permissions to delete) within the shell.  Have a look at it!

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majiq

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

You could also examine the results of a find that looked in your /usr/bin for access times older than some amount of time (three months, a year, etc.) and consider removing those applications, if they give enough of a space buffer.

Last edited by majiq (2009-08-18 02:20:32)

perbh

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

In my 'green' days with arch - I would make /var a symlink to a bigger fs (and yes, I did start with root being 8-10 gigs - these days I use 20). However, I would think that 'pacman -Scc' should do the trick (and keep doing it!!) - you dont really _need_ the installed packages.

jacko

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

the cache these days is almost useless with the advent of the A.R.M. and a fast net connection.

M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: [Solved] / partition is full

Thanks everyone. Cleaning the cache worked. I looked at pizmooz's method as well and didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

Marking as solved.