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Arch root partition is full, how to clean it up? (lemmy.roembol.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After installing pacman packages (last one was 'ungoogled-chromium') my root partition of 20GB is completly full. Now I can't update new packages.

My partition structure is: root (20GB) /home (470GB) swap (10GB)

How can I delete the garbage that is piling up in my root, and how to prevent it from happening again.

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[–] wmassingham 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delete some of the stuff you installed, and don't install more stuff than you have space for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear, I have a home partition with over 300GB of free space left. Is there maybe a way to specify packages to be installed in my home partition instead of my root?

[–] errorinthread 2 points 1 year ago

As people have mentioned there are alternate package managers that can provide this if you are concerned about resizing ur root partition and expect it to fill up again soon. Check out Guix, nix, or flatpaks (definitely the easiest to quickly setup )