Will upgrades fill up root partition? [Solved]

Question

I've noticed over the last month since installing Arch, that when I do upgrades it filling up my root partition.
[davek@arch64 ~]$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             19228308   5983660  12267896  33% /
none                    962680       144    962536   1% /dev
none                    962680         0    962680   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3            134405528   6996148 120581956   6% /home
/dev/sda1               198337     15489    172608   9% /boot
does this mean if I do a -Syu every week the root partition will be filled up in a few months? How do I limit this problem? What can I do to keep it down?
Last edited by vinoman2 (2009-09-04 13:34:17)

Answer 1

Packages downloaded during upgrades are stored in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. You can use the -c option of pacman in a sync operation (i.e..: pacman -Sc) to get rid of older packages that are no longer installed. Specify the -c option twice (pacman -Scc) to delete all cached packages.
pacman(8) wrote:
-c, --clean
   Remove packages that are no longer installed from the cache as well
   as currently unused sync databases to free up disk space. When
   pacman downloads packages, it saves them in a cache directory. In
   addition, databases are saved for every sync DB you download from,
   and are not deleted even if they are removed from the configuration
   file pacman.conf(5). Use one --clean switch to only remove packages
   that are no longer installed; use two to remove all packages from
   the cache. In both cases, you will have a yes or no option to
   remove packages and/or unused downloaded databases.
   If you use a network shared cache, see the CleanMethod option in
   pacman.conf(5).