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.
Run
ncdu(CLI) or Filelight (GUI) on your/and see what’s taking up all that space first, then we can figure out what to do about it.This realy helped my out. /var/cache/pacman took up over 5GB of space in my root partition. To prevent this from happening again, is there a way to move pacman cache to my home partition where I have over 300GB of space for pacman to consume?
I’m not currently using Arch so I can’t test, but from this forum post it looks like you can change the
CacheDirvariable in/etc/pacman.confto point anywhere you want.Yes, this did work! Thanks for your help!
Could you create a new partition out of that 300 for /var?