Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then
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A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
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Check which folder is the biggest. I am going to go on a lim and say it probably is being caused by file roller
It's yay, which took up ~160 GiB. It was storing previous versions of AUR binaries which I guess added up over time. I posted a screenshot of ncdu outputs for a more detailed breakdown in one of the other reply threads
yay -Sc(c)Is probably a better command in this instance
Honestly the reason I've put yay/paru's build directory into ram/tmpfs long ago. It's almost never worth it keeping all those packages checked out. You also do your ssd a favour by not hammering it with compile workloads.