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Arch root partition is full, how to clean it up?
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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
CacheDir
variable in/etc/pacman.conf
to point anywhere you want.Yes, this did work! Thanks for your help!
Could you create a new partition out of that 300 for /var?