Tw1

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Phew, no windows (lemmy.roembol.nl)
 
[–] Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

log files only took up 800MB, but I fixed most of the problems now, by setting up pacman to put the cache in the home partition.

You are right, it was better to leave /home in the same partition, but now it is difficult to chance that. I thought it had advantages when something goes wrong with my root i can swap it out, but it only caused problems for me. Why do so many people split up there /home then? I thought it was common practice.

[–] Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, this did work! Thanks for your help!

[–] Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be clear, I have a home partition with over 300GB of free space left. Is there maybe a way to specify packages to be installed in my home partition instead of my root?

[–] Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nl 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Tw1@lemmy.roembol.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

 

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.