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Arch root partition is full, how to clean it up?
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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?
Pacman installs binaries in the root partition because they are installed system-wide. I don't think that pacman can install binaries for a single user (inside the home partition).
One way of achieving that would be compiling or downloading the binaries manually as a normal user and putting the
.desktopfile in.local/share/applications. The program would then be only accessible for a single user though.