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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

check to see howuch space your log files are using.

to prevent it from happening ..

I would consider 20GB for / to be too small for long term desktop use.

and with just 470GB for /home, I would not split the two up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

log files only took up 800MB, but I fixed most of the problems now, by setting up pacman to put the cache in the home partition.

You are right, it was better to leave /home in the same partition, but now it is difficult to chance that. I thought it had advantages when something goes wrong with my root i can swap it out, but it only caused problems for me. Why do so many people split up there /home then? I thought it was common practice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main advantage of having a /home partition is that you can easily preserve it during reinstalls or during a distro hop. Reinstalls used to be more common in the past when some distros didn't allow full distro upgrades without reinstalling. See this result which is still ranked #1 on duckduckgo

I personally use a @home btrfs subvolume which has most of the same advantages to me, and additionally allows @home and @root to share the same partition. It also allows me to use luks on everthing without bothering with lvm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, typically with two entirely separate disks, not just partitions on the same physical disk.