Hi,
Because I saw it in “Curated” in Bazaar, I installed Alpaca and Jan. They both seem to work (a bit slow, but I guess I don’t have the most powerful computer - Framework 12 - Intel i5 - 48 GB ram - don’t know about GPU).
Alpaca complained my disk is full. That’s not true, but the file system /etc belongs to is 97% full. I think it is because Alpaca, but maybe it was already like that? Can I clean that up or allocate more memory or something, or is it OK at 97%?
I found somewhere Alpaca isn’t configured correct for Bluefin, I should assign a different folder for the data? Jan doesn’t give me those problems (altough it also has difficulties: after thinking a long time, sometimes it stops with an error and no answer).
/etc is 97% full, sounds a bit strange. You better should say that the file system /etc/ belongs to is 97% full
I changed my question in that way. Thank you!
I asked an AI chatbot and that gave me this advice, to avoid too much data in /etc:
flatpak override --user \
--env=OLLAMA_HOME=$HOME/.local/share/ollama \
--env=OLLAMA_MODELS=$HOME/.local/share/ollama \
--filesystem=$HOME/.local/share/ollama \
com.jeffser.Alpaca
The explanation sounds reasonable. I’ll let you know if I run into trouble after this. 
Not sure if I should worry about the 97%?
EDIT:
I don’t think Alpaca wrote to /etc, it was a wrong assumption of me! This override is not necessary, I believe.
Is there too much data in /etc?
Please run sudo du -hs /etc/ and show the output?
I don’t know, I never looked until I got a warning from Alpaca. Don’t know if the warning is linked to /etc. I just looked at my memory usage and found that was the biggest chunk (as you can see in the image I added). It seemed alarming at first. After talking to AI, I think 97% is normal and nothing to worry about?
❯ sudo du -hs /etc/
61M /etc/
You say you don’t know but stated in above post “this advice, to avoid too much data in /etc”
As you see: 61MB in /etc is peanuts.
You may also run du -hs $HOME to see how much space is used in your homedir
Yeah, that’s what ChatGPT told me… and after I noticed I could still reach my downloaded models, it was clear they where never in /etc. Then it came back on it’s “advice”.
I have no permission to read the files in certain volumes:
du: kan map '/var/home/jonathan/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/(different sets of long numbers and letters)' niet lezen: Toegang geweigerd
But in the disk application I can see it’ far from full.
You should be cautious to believe what AIs tell you. 
Yeah, container stuff, so: sudo du -hs $HOME should help
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You are right
I’m planning to read more about those LLM models and stuff, I just wanted a quick first impression.
When I got a warning, I took the lazy route and asked. I hoped I could recognise the sound advice.
Anyway, so no need to pannick, everything is ok in the /etc folder and with Alpaca as well.
Thank you for helping!
Nevertheless 97% utilization is much. I assume things have grown in your home dir.
How can I check what causes this? Is there some cleaning that can be done?
❯ sudo du -hs $HOME
215G /var/home/jonathan
I am a command line guy. So, I like to check space from the comand line.
I have installed dust
brew install dust
Then I have defined an alias
alias dux=’dust -b -D -d 1 -x’
But when running from root you simply can run sudo dust -b -D -d 1 -x $HOME
How much space does your file system have? 240GB?
I think double of that.
Bestandssysteem Grootte Gebruikt Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op
composefs 32M 32M 0 100% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 465G 297G 163G 65% /etc
devtmpfs 24G 0 24G 0% /dev
tmpfs 24G 92K 24G 1% /dev/shm
efivarfs 268K 155K 109K 59% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs 9,4G 2,5M 9,4G 1% /run
tmpfs 1,0M 0 1,0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
/dev/nvme0n1p3 465G 297G 163G 65% /var
/dev/nvme0n1p3 465G 297G 163G 65% /var/home
tmpfs 24G 24K 24G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p2 974M 495M 412M 55% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1 599M 13M 587M 3% /boot/efi
tmpfs 1,0M 0 1,0M 0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
tmpfs 4,7G 13M 4,7G 1% /run/user/1000
❯ sudo dust -b -D -d 1 -x $HOME
Plaats uw vinger op de lezer
... (deleted these entries)
88G ├── .var
223G ┌─┴ jonathan
Those last 2 amounts are in red, is that a warning?
Yes. My estimation came from your previous information of 97% full.
But now things are looking relaxed.
I forgot a trailing /
sudo dust -b -D -d 1 -x $HOME/