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Root partition out of space [SOLVED]

After the last upgrade, I am taking this: Your root partition is running out of disk space 90MB (0%). I ran bleachbit, but again I have the same problem. I also added
 
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tmpfs   /tmp         tmpfs   rw,nodev,nosuid         0  0
at /etc/fstab
Still nothing
I had at least 30GB of free space in the root partition...
Any suggestions?

Re: Root partition out of space

Reply #1 –
Does Bleachbit clean pacman's package cache? If not, try pacman -Scc on a terminal. Over the years this folder can grow to tens of GB.


I'd recommend running du -h on folders that usually eat up space like /var/cache, ~/Downloads, etc (or a GUI equivalent like Filelight if you still have enough disk space to install them).

Re: Root partition out of space

Reply #2 –
As capezotte has already suggested, you may need to clean pacman's package cache:
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sudo pacman -Scc

Disk usage analyzers like ncdu (cli), filelight and baobab (gui) are very useful in your case:

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pacman -Ss ncdu
galaxy/ncdu 2.2.1-1 [installé]
    Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
community/ncdu 2.2.1-1 [installé]
    Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface

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pacman -Ss baobab
world/baobab 43.0-1 (gnome)
    A graphical directory tree analyzer
extra/baobab 43.0-1 (gnome)
    A graphical directory tree analyzer
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pacman -Ss filelight
world/filelight 22.08.3-1 (kde-applications kde-utilities) [installé]
    View disk usage information
extra/filelight 22.08.3-1 (kde-applications kde-utilities) [installé]
    View disk usage information
 

Re: Root partition out of space

Reply #3 –
Thank you both!
I had 36GB in pacman cache!
Also, I had 56GB in yay cache (home partition)!
Now I can breathe easier!

Re: Root partition out of space [SOLVED]

Reply #5 –
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Re: Root partition out of space [SOLVED]

Reply #6 –
@tintin  yay -Scc clears all of them!
@capezotte I noticed it! Thank you!