I have a 500gb ssd and a 1tb hdd. I can probably free up some space just by finding files I can move to the hdd, but that is really only kicking the can down the road. I would like to make my entire system usable space. The problem is telling pacman "oh, install these packages over there and these packages over here". Is there a way to do that? I am using endeavour.
#Almost out of space on the drive storing my root partition. What can I do?
alpine condor
versed breach
I have a 500gb ssd and a 1tb hdd. I can probably free up some space just by find...
Can't be done trivially
And is unsupported
Your system should not be anywhere near 500G
ncdu -x / to analyze space usage
-x so it doesn't analyze mounted fileystems
shell raptor
How old is the install? I dont know your system but here's how I clear a bit of space, of course be careful deleting stuff:
Deleting orphaned pkgs
sudo pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rns -
Deleting yay and pacman caches yay -Scc
Manually cleaning remanents of uninstalled packages in ~/.cache ~/.config ~/.local/share/
Move big files like movies, music, etc to your secondary HDD
If you game a lot clean old shader cache of your emulators and double check steam cuz sometimes there can be left overs.
Of course you can do like Hm7 suggested and use commands to find big files over a certain threshold. To know what takes space.
Again be carefull clearing stuff. In doubt leave the file/folder there.