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Hi,
Just installed Arch and I and beyond pleased. I understand Arch does require the user to do (some) maintenance. So, here goes.
I just had a pop-up that the root partition runs low on space and that I have to move some stuff to free up space. Fair enuff - what manual do I read for that?
Thanks!
Thor
Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-09-06 16:05:41)
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What's your partition scheme? If /var doesn't have its own partition, have you kept all installed and updated packages (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … l_commands)?
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You can clean your cache.
pacman -Scc
Also move your home directory to other partition.
Best is to increase the size of your root partition.
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … y_Programs
see where your free space has disappeared
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Hi,
First of - "note to self : mark this as solved".
Thanks!
There's what I did, check the disk space and Root's folder had some download, not clever, to quote from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Buil … WTO-3.html (at the bottom somewhere) "You would not normally build a package as root. Doing an su to root is only necessary for installing the compiled binaries into system directories. " - so Root does not need a download folder. Got rid of that (tried to repair pacman in the weekend - but it seemed that a mirror was "broken" not pacman, that was in Root's folder: the source of pacman). Then I applied "pacman -Sc" to free up some space, came from 377 Mb to 542 Mb.
Maintenance tricks to keep up.
Thanks a zillion people!!!
Thor
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