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#1 2010-05-31 02:43:06
- Meister
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Root partition already half full after a month old install
The topic pretty much explains my problem. I had created a 14 gig root partition upon install, and It's only been a month and already 7.5 gigs are full. That doesn't make much sense to me, I've only installed KDE, and added a few programs. All my other files like movies, games, etc should be under my /home partition. Does this seem right to people? How could I free up some room, or figure out what's clogging up my root partition so much?
Thanks for you help.
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#2 2010-05-31 03:12:40
- jeff story
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Re: Root partition already half full after a month old install
Check out your /var/cache/pacman/pkg file.
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#3 2010-05-31 03:19:42
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Re: Root partition already half full after a month old install
Well that file has about 856 files of tars, etc. 1.1 Gigs worth. That's a bit, but still doesn't seem like it'd be the cause of 7 gigs already being used. I know the KDE install is 700mb or so, but I'm not sure if that's just how much it is before it's installed or not.
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#4 2010-05-31 03:24:25
- SoleSoul
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Re: Root partition already half full after a month old install
Use the great text based program "ncdu" to show you what's taking up all your storage.
It's in the repos.
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#5 2010-05-31 03:47:37
- Meister
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Re: Root partition already half full after a month old install
Excellent, thanks much for that! It's a nifty little program. It looks like I have 3.1 gigs in the /usr/ directory, mostly in the lib and share directories. 2.5 in /opt/, which seems to make sense for I have a few games on there apparently (Doom 3, ET, UT), and then the other big one would be in the Pacman directory listed above. After seeing this, I'm not sure if I should delete anything, or move the games to my home partition maybe? If what's there is there, and I'm not going to be losing a ton of more storage in my root partition over time, I should be OK I think.
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