On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote: >>> >>> From /etc/pacman.conf: >> >> >> CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ > > Where did you found this line? It is my configuration to place the cache directory where I think it is best for my machine. Is it forbidden ? > It should be > CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ The default is CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, that's different > >> >> This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large >> SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this: >> >> $ ls -al /drawer/system >> ..... >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> >> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/ >> >> Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd >> by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir? >> >> Thank you for any hints on how investigate. >> >> >> >> >> google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx >> > > If you have no free space, use > pacman -Sc > to clean the old versions or change it on another partition with enough disk > space. > What is abd? -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx