this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
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Okay, so here's the recap:
I woke up this morning and decided my main drive (just a 500GB SSD) was too full, at about 85%, so I decided to do something about that. I go through the usual:
pacman -Sc
,paccache -rk0
, andpacman -Qqtd | pacman -Rns -
(which I've aliased to "orphankiller" because that's too much typing for me). None of that did anything though, as I'm usually pretty up on this, and I expected it, so my next step was to find other ways of deleting unnecessary files floating around, and that meant a trip to the usually very helpful Arch wiki.On the page "pacman Tips and Tricks", I find 1.7: Detecting More Unneeded Packages. "Perfect!" I thought, "That's exactly what I'm looking for!" I enthusiastically type in the command
pacman -Qqd | pacman -Rns -
, and then quickly go check how much space I just saved. Nada. Or at least not enough to move the percentage point. "Oh well, keep looking," I think and I go back to Firefox to click some more links in hopes that one of them will be the space saving ultra-script that I need. The first one I click, I get an error from my trusty browser, I don't remember exactly what it was but it was something about not being able to verify the page. "Weird, let's try another one." Nope, same thing.Well, being that I had just deleted something, I figured I should go see what exactly it was that I did. It was a good thing I'd left the terminal window open, because after just a few scrolls I saw it:
ca_certificates
, which Firefox absolutely needs. "Great, I'll just reinstall." Nope! I just deleted my pacman cache, and pacman also needs those certificates to download from the Arch repo's mirrors! "Fantastic," I grumbled while I tried to think of how I could get this pesky package back on my machine.Then it occurred to me: I've been keeping up with my btrfs snapshots (for once, lol)! I can just backup to yesterday and forget this whole mess! So I bring up Timeshift, and we're on our way back to a functioning system! Or so I thought. See, I don't have a separate /home partition, but I do have a separate @home subvolume, so when Timeshift asked me if I wanted to restore that too, I clicked the check mark. Only thing is, I don't think I actually have a separate @home subvolume, which brings us to the error in the meme. /home wouldn't mount, and that meant I was borked.
Fortunately, our story has a happy ending! I DDG'd the error on my phone, and found a post from like seven years ago, about someone who had this same set of circumstances, and the one reply was my fix: just go into
/etc/fstab
and delete the "subvolid" part of whatever partition that's giving you grief. Did that, reboot, and we're finally fixed! And now, forevermore, I shall check what I'm deleting before I hit the enter button!The post-script is bittersweet though, because after all this trouble, and then the rest of the afternoon working on the original problem, I am down to... 81%. Oh well.
Try removing any unused language packs! I've heard that the French one takes up allot of space, remove it with
sudo rm -rf /
/s
You mean the Rfench one?
you messed up
sudo rm -fr /*
no /s, this actually works
/s
You joke, but I actually did remove locales with BleachBit, and then changed
pacman.conf
to skip the unnecessary ones. Saved me about 400MB!BleachBit? Wipe with a cloth?
Bleachbit
Thank you, I was making a tongue in cheek reference to this though: https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something
LMAO I was unaware of this! That's hilarious!
Nono,
-rf
deletes all your files. Usesudo rm -fr /*
instead to actually delete the French language pack!also /s
edit: someone already made the joke, darn