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.

  • Roshakk@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 months ago

    You can start to delete pachage caches, and see how much you gain… If not done often you can have a pile of old stuff. Check out the paccache arch wiki page for more info!

    • c0mpost@lemmy.eco.br
      9·
      11 months ago

      This. You might have to clear up some space before installing pacman-contrib though.

      paccache -rk1 once in a while and you’re good, maybe even create a hook

      • Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nlOP
        7·
        11 months ago

        Thanks! This realy helped me out. Saved 1GB on my root.

        When I install things with pacman, is it storing files in the root partition? If so, can I specify installations to install inside the home partition?

        • Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de
          4·
          11 months ago

          Pacman installs binaries in the root partition because they are installed system-wide. I don’t think that pacman can install binaries for a single user (inside the home partition).

          One way of achieving that would be compiling or downloading the binaries manually as a normal user and putting the .desktop file in .local/share/applications. The program would then be only accessible for a single user though.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yah, it saves everything it downloads in /var/cache/pacman. The fact it does so allows you to fix things that broke when you upgraded them by downgrading from old archives - especially when one of the things that broke was your network connection, or something that prevents you from finding and downloading a previous version from online.

          Anyway, that’s why Arch hoards files; you just have to clean them up occasionally.

          I have a huge root partition and am pretty laissez faire about installing stuff; mine’s at 35GB and I consider that pretty bloated. Whatchu got installed there, buddy? In any case it sounds like your root isn’t big enough. Did you happen to RAID it so you could add space later?