# Alpaca - /etc full **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [January 11, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493 "2026-01-11T18:15:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/1 "2026-01-11T18:15:43Z")
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). ![Schermafdruk van 2026-01-11 20-24-21](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/d/d73b2240ed3208f9d27493a29af178f08f571933.png) ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/2 "2026-01-11T18:27:42Z")
`/etc` is 97% full, sounds a bit strange. You better should say that the file system `/etc/` belongs to is 97% full ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/3 "2026-01-11T19:25:11Z")
I changed my question in that way. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/4 "2026-01-11T19:53:11Z")
I asked an AI chatbot and that gave me this advice, to avoid too much data in /etc: ```auto 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. ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/5 "2026-01-11T20:03:35Z")
Is there too much data in `/etc`? Please run `sudo du -hs /etc/` and show the output? ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:18pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/6 "2026-01-11T20:18:15Z")
> [@locke496](#): > > sudo du -hs /etc/ 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? ```auto ❯ sudo du -hs /etc/ 61M /etc/ ``` ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/7 "2026-01-11T20:19:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:21pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/8 "2026-01-11T20:21:06Z")
You may also run `du -hs $HOME` to see how much space is used in your homedir ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/9 "2026-01-11T20:23:13Z")
> [@locke496](#): > > You say you don’t know but stated in above post “this advice, to avoid too much data in /etc” 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”. ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/10 "2026-01-11T20:26:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:26pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/11 "2026-01-11T20:26:27Z")
You should be cautious to believe what AIs tell you. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:27pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/12 "2026-01-11T20:27:06Z")
Yeah, container stuff, so: `sudo du -hs $HOME` should help ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/13 "2026-01-11T20:29:28Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/14 "2026-01-11T20:30:36Z")
Nevertheless 97% utilization is much. I assume things have grown in your home dir. ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/15 "2026-01-11T20:31:53Z")
> [@locke496](#): > > 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? ```auto ❯ sudo du -hs $HOME 215G /var/home/jonathan ``` ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/16 "2026-01-11T20:34:01Z")
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` ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:34pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/17 "2026-01-11T20:34:24Z")
How much space does your file system have? 240GB? ---
**Author:** ![Jonasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@Jonasan](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Jonasan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:37pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/18 "2026-01-11T20:37:22Z")
> [@locke496](#): > > How much space does your file system have? 240GB? I think double of that. ```auto 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 ``` ```auto ❯ 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? ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/19 "2026-01-11T20:40:18Z")
Yes. My estimation came from your previous information of 97% full. But now things are looking relaxed. ---
**Author:** ![locke496](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/locke496/32/8035_2.png) [@locke496](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/locke496)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493/20 "2026-01-11T20:41:01Z")
I forgot a trailing `/` `sudo dust -b -D -d 1 -x $HOME/` [Next page](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/alpaca-etc-full/11493.md?page=2)