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Found something strange today…

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@manuel ? :sweat_smile:

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It is not universal - here’s a screenshot from a minute ago…

01-pcache

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I’m using the new iso, all packages updated, and FS BTRFS…

fstab only has sda entries… no nvme or sdb drives were ever mounted in this system…
So I really don’t know what could have happened here…

$ lsblk 
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0 223,6G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2        8:2    0  78,1G  0 part /run/media/myuser/ext4
├─sda3        8:3    0  19,5G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sda4        8:4    0 125,4G  0 part /var/log
                                      /var/cache
                                      /home
                                      /
sdb           8:16   0 931,5G  0 disk 
└─sdb1        8:17   0 931,5G  0 part 
nvme0n1     259:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0    16M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   100M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 465,1G  0 part 
└─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   518M  0 part 

You found the easter egg surprise!

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I think I understood now, it’s showing my NAS drives… they are mounted in fstab, thus it’s showing there in pacman cache cleaner

Checked the file: /usr/bin/paccache-service-manager to understand how it works, and found this in line 76:

txt+="Free space on disk: $df.</b>\n" \
$ df
Sist. Arq.                  Blocos de 1K     Usado Disponível Uso% Montado em
dev                              8138844         0    8138844   0% /dev
run                              8146736      1648    8145088   1% /run
/dev/sda4                      131503104  22653600  108760672  18% /
tmpfs                            8146736    522776    7623960   7% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4                      131503104  22653600  108760672  18% /home
/dev/sda4                      131503104  22653600  108760672  18% /var/cache
/dev/sda4                      131503104  22653600  108760672  18% /var/log
tmpfs                            8146736     13852    8132884   1% /tmp
/dev/sda1                         523244       576     522668   1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda2                       80056892        32   75944476   1% /run/media/myuser/ext4
tmpfs                            1629344        56    1629288   1% /run/user/1000
//mynas/folder1   1870732988 302458820 1568274168  17% /mnt/folder1
//mynas/folder2     1922688292   2258040 1920430252   1% /mnt/folder2
//mynas/folder3     1870732988 302458820 1568274168  17% /mnt/folder3
//mynas/folder4      1870732988 302458820 1568274168  17% /mnt/folder4

Btw, I have two 2TB hard drives in my NAS working as one for redundancy, so it’s only 2TB space, which matches what is showing in the paccache-service-manager

/etc/fstab

# NAS entries
//mynas/folder1 /mnt/folder1 cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,_netdev,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/path_to_credentials/file,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0 0 0
//mynas/folder2 /mnt/folder2 cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,_netdev,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/path_to_credentials/file,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0 0 0
//mynas/folder3 /mnt/folder3 cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,_netdev,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/path_to_credentials/file,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0 0 0
//mynas/folder4 /mnt/folder4 cifs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=30,_netdev,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,credentials=/path_to_credentials/file,iocharset=utf8,vers=3.0 0 0

I didn’t remove the fstab entries to confirm if this is really what’s happening…

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Yes, that is it…

[myuser@eos ~]$ sudo umount /mnt/folder4

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That’s not very “terminal centric” :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib
sudo systemctl enable --now paccache.timer

You could edit both paccache.timer and paccache.service to set the desired parameters.

Personally, I just run paccache manually and not that periodically. That’s “terminal centric” :wink:

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terminal centric, it’s the best place to learn… :slight_smile: learned a little bit today

Since it’s only a cosmetic issue, I’ll just ignore it, the settings are set correctly in the service and timer despite of the fact that it shows the NAS drives there…

paccache.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/paccache -rk2

paccache.timer
OnCalendar=weekly

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Interesting find!

Could you please show the output of commands (using the mounts that show this issue)

  • /usr/bin/df -h
  • /usr/bin/lsblk -fm

Hopefully that helps me fix it.

Note that the full path in the commands is necessary to guarantee the exactly right commands (no aliases etc.).

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Me too.

alias pcd='paccache -dvk 2'
alias pcr='paccache -rvk 2'
alias pcdu='paccache -dvuk 0'
alias pcru='paccache -rvuk 0'

Preview cache packages to be removed first, then blow them away.

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I use hooks :upside_down_face:

/etc/pacman.d/hooks/98-clear-paccache.hook

[Trigger]
Type = Package
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Operation = Remove
Target = *

[Action]
Description = Clear pacman cache...
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/paccache -rk2

/etc/pacman.d/hooks/98-clear-paccache-unused.hook

[Trigger]
Type = Package
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Operation = Remove
Target = *

[Action]
Description = Clear pacman unused cache...
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/paccache -ruk0
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Nice!
I haven’t been using --dryrun flag before but it’s good to review the packages to be removed.
I might borrow (read steal) your aliases :innocent:

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Yeah, me three :slight_smile:

I just never put sudo in my aliases. When I run sudo, I want to be sure I’m running sudo. Typing it out is a small price to pay. I even typed sudo thr  four five times in this post, not that difficult…

Also, for paccache, you don’t need sudo. It’s a script and it already has sudo in it.

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Thanks.

It prompts me for a sudo password, so I assumed sudo was required, learned something today.

alias s='sudo '

:sweat_smile:

I really hate typing.

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In general, if it prompts you for password on its own, it doesn’t need sudo.

Yeah, makes obvious sense when you actually think about it, rather than error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.

Aliases changed.

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Hello Manuel, follows the requested output:

$ /usr/bin/df -h
Sist. Arq.      Tam. Usado Disp. Uso% Montado em
dev             7,8G     0  7,8G   0% /dev
run             7,8G  1,7M  7,8G   1% /run
/dev/sda4       126G   23G  103G  18% /
tmpfs           7,8G     0  7,8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7,8G   16K  7,8G   1% /tmp
/dev/sda4       126G   23G  103G  18% /home
/dev/sda4       126G   23G  103G  18% /var/cache
/dev/sda4       126G   23G  103G  18% /var/log
/dev/sda1       511M  576K  511M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/sda2        77G   32K   73G   1% /run/media/myuser/ext4
tmpfs           1,6G   56K  1,6G   1% /run/user/1000
[myuser@eos ~]$ 
[myuser@eos ~]$ /usr/bin/lsblk -fm
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS   SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE
sda                                                                                     223,6G root  disk  brw-rw----
├─sda1
│    vfat   FAT32 NO_LABEL
│                       3F6E-428A                             510,4M     0% /boot/efi     512M root  disk  brw-rw----
├─sda2
│    ext4   1.0   ext4  e60ff1d0-35a4-47d3-b722-5bd1409ab0ce   72,4G     0% /run/media/myuser/ext4
│                                                                                        78,1G root  disk  brw-rw----
├─sda3
│    swap   1           0bcda331-2ec8-46d1-b6dc-afafcc0c79b3                [SWAP]       19,5G root  disk  brw-rw----
└─sda4
     btrfs              54471866-fe87-4ed9-897d-9032d888dcc3  102,8G    18% /var/log    125,4G root  disk  brw-rw----
                                                                            /var/cache                     
                                                                            /home                          
                                                                            /                              
sdb                                                                                     931,5G root  disk  brw-rw----
└─sdb1
     ntfs         Data  1836134E36132BEE                                                931,5G root  disk  brw-rw----
nvme0n1
│                                                                                       465,8G root  disk  brw-rw----
├─nvme0n1p1
│                                                                                          16M root  disk  brw-rw----
├─nvme0n1p2
│    vfat   FAT32       687F-F9C6                                                         100M root  disk  brw-rw----
├─nvme0n1p3
│    ntfs               3ECC8AB9CC8A6ACB                                                465,1G root  disk  brw-rw----
└─nvme0n1p4
     ntfs               9694D2CC94D2AE4D                                                  518M root  disk  brw-rw----

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