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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] 2 points 1 year ago

In addition to everything else, if you're not using hibernate you could reclaim some of the swap partition, 10 GB is completely wasted.

I would delete and merge the swap space into root if they're neighbors. You can create swap files instead of any size you want, and place them anywhere you want, like /home.

I would recommend starting with 1 GB of swap and see how much is actually being used.

To create and use a swap file:

Use dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024 to create a file.
Use mkswap to format the swap file.
Use swapon /swapfile to activate it.
Add /swapfile none swap sw 0 0 in /etc/fstab to activate on every reboot.