[GLLUG] rootfs is filling up

Taylor Burke tburke1192 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 00:32:18 EST 2012


Oof... here's part of the issue:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2.6G Jan 17 00:27 slim.log

Dunno why slim is doing that, but I'm sure it doesn't need to be there.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Taylor Burke <tburke1192 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so /var is taking up 4.1G, and it seems to be in /var/log. Dunno
> why that happened, really. Where should I go from here?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Taylor Burke <tburke1192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Chick,
>>
>> It's a completely fresh install, and I really don't have too much installed.
>> I'll post a package list as soon as I can, though.
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2012 12:06 AM, "Chick Tower" <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you checked on the Arch Fora (plural of forum), Taylor, or submitted
>>> your question there?
>>>
>>> Without knowing what you have installed, it's hard to say if it's taking
>>> up more space than usual.  But please don't post a list of what packages you
>>> have installed.
>>>
>>> Did you just copy over the old installation to the new one?  I see that
>>> they take up the same space, 7.4GB.
>>>
>>> Is /var taking up a lot of space?  You can check each of the top-level
>>> directories with du -h --max-depth=1 /, if I recall correctly.
>>>
>>>
>>>                               Chick
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2012 10:17 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey guys, I've got an odd problem. The last two Arch Linux installs
>>>> I've had, the root filesystem has become completely full for a reason
>>>> I can't quite figure out. Oddly enough, this is the first time I've
>>>> ever had this problem, and I'm not doing anything different than what
>>>> I always do when I have Arch installed. I tried clearing the package
>>>> cache, but it freed up very little space. I'm attaching a Pastebin doc
>>>> with some information that might help.
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/8nHxQZGu
>>>>
>>>> If there's anything else you need, just let me know- I can put it up as
>>>> well.
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