Problem with disk space

looop · 02-25-2012, 04:19 PM

Hey I have installed Arch on an old HP pavilion, but I am havning space problems yet I have a ~220 gb hdd in it, and when I run df I get this:

Code:

[root@(none) tools]# df
Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs           7662396  7609468         0 100% /
/dev              512688        0    512688   0% /dev
/run              514228      268    513960   1% /run
/dev/sda3        7662396  7609468         0 100% /
shm               514228      136    514092   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs             514228      328    513900   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1          99590    16391     77980  18% /boot
/dev/sda4      235860396 34841016 189212412  16% /home

Can anyone tell me what's wrong ? should I have set more space to the for the root ? - I ain't use to an Arch setup as main system

sys64738 · 02-25-2012, 04:59 PM

Hi
1. your root partition is full
2. maybe

Three ways to solve the problem:
1. You've to remove stuff from your root partition.

if that's not sufficient:
2. and 3. You have to resize your partitions
or delete and recreate them in a different way (both after a backup).

to do so
1. check if you have installed software you don't need, log files which have grown to big ....

2. to backup I would recommend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partimage
then resizing or deleting and recreating partitions can be done with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Parted

Be aware that resizing can be a risk for your data and might end in loss of data so backup!

looop · 02-25-2012, 05:22 PM

How big a root partition would you recommend ?

sys64738 · 02-26-2012, 01:11 AM

Well that depends on what you want to do, if you're just trying something I'd say about 3-4 GB.
If you have KDE or Gnome its about 10 GB. On my laptop I have 11 GB.

looop · 02-26-2012, 02:42 AM

I want is a kind of permanent distro now so I will just reinstall it

and thanks man, I will make a 20g Root how much is that approx in blocks?

looop · 02-26-2012, 08:34 AM

30GB of root must be enough

mixtr · 02-26-2012, 08:39 AM

Delete your old packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg to clear some space or run pacman -Scc.

sys64738 · 02-26-2012, 09:23 AM

@mixtr that is my 1. answer, just avoid wasting disk space.