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.

  • @[email protected]
    9•1 year 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

    • @[email protected]OP
      7•1 year 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?

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 year 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.