How to deal with root partition full on arch installation media? about getch HOT 3 CLOSED

I have to test on a recent image. But yeah you don't have a lot of space available.
Usually you start to install ruby. After that you have to work in /tmp dir because it use ram. So in resume:

1. pacman -S ruby
2. cd /tmp
3. find a way to download getch from this repo (curl or wget https://github.com/szorfein/getch/archive/refs/tags/0.5.0.tar.gz)
4. tar xvf 0.5.0.tar.gz
5. cd in the dir
6. ruby -I lib bin/getch -h

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Ruby installation failed immediately due to lack of space. But maybe I did something weired with arch linux.
I had a bit more success with voidlinux getting ruby installed and launching the installer. Only to discover nvme device names are not accepted. I got an error when passing /dev/nvme0.

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Just tested and no problem with the last iso archlinux-2023.12.01-x86_64.iso.

I could install wget and ruby

pacman -Sy ruby wget
ruby -v
ruby 3.0.6p216 ...

and continious in /tmp for the rest.

df -h | grep airootfs
airootfs 256M 84M 173M 33% /

Only take 33% of disk space.

thanks for report, i will add support for ssd disk nvmeX in the day

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