And that’s all, I’m happy since I was out of space.
My
/is a tmpfs.There is no state accumulating that I didn’t explicitly specify, exactly because I don’t want to deal with those kind of chores.
No one showing love for ncdu around here?
I freed my entire disk by removing the French language pack
I recommend it too. It’s simple as doing:
sudo rm -rf /Where “-rf” obviously stands for “remove french”.
For the curious, rm -fr /
The always huge and killing my system space:
- pacman cache
- docker bullshit
- flatpaks
- journalctl files!
In case you don’t already know about it, paccache (part of the pacman-contrib package) will let you easily remove old packages from the pacman cache
Clean all the cache downloads of Arch Linux Packages
pacman -Scc
Remove unused docker networks and images
docker system prune --all
Cleanup untracked git files that might be in .gitignore such as build and out directories (beware of losing data, use “n” instead of “f” for a dry run)
git clean -xdf
Do an aggresive pruning of objects in git (MIGHT BE VERY SLOW)
git gc --aggressive --prune=now
Remove old journal logs, keeping last seven days
journalctl --vacuum-time 7days
Remove pip cache
pip cache purge
Remove unused conda packages and caches:
conda clean --all
If you are a Python developer, this can easily be several or tens of GB.
I can see you’re not using Flatpak, the destroyer of disk space. Nice list though!
Uninstall unused flatpak dependencies:
flatpak uninstall --unused
I use
du -hs * | sort -hIn Germany “du hs” is considered an insult and I think that’s beautiful.
selber hs °^°
I love Filelight. Whoever came up with it is brilliant.
This is why I’ve set up a ramdisk on
~/.cacheand~/Downloads– “free” automatic cleanup plus a tad more of performance because why not.I might do that just to force myself to organize and move files out of downloads.
I don’t think you’ll need to do that, unless you are planning to download files that are over 4Gb long and/or you are using a potato that has less than 1 Gb of ram.
t. I’ve set my entire ram into a ramdisk, and the performance actually IMPROVED compared to not setting a ramdisk at all.
I don’t think they meant forcing themselves because their RAM would fill up, but because their stuff would be gone after rebooting if they didn’t move it.
The following NEW packages will be installed: filelight gamin kded5 kio kwayland-data kwayland-integration libdbusmenu-qt5-2 libgamin0 libhfstospell11 libkf5auth-data libkf5authcore5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5 libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5 libkf5doctools5 libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5 libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5guiaddons-bin libkf5guiaddons-data libkf5guiaddons5 libkf5i18n-data libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5idletime5 libkf5itemviews-data libkf5itemviews5 libkf5jobwidgets-data libkf5jobwidgets5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiogui5 libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5notifications-data libkf5notifications5 libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data libkf5service5 libkf5solid5 libkf5solid5-data libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5sonnetui5 libkf5textwidgets-data libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5 libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5widgetsaddons5 libkf5windowsystem-data libkf5windowsystem5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libpolkit-qt5-1-1 libqt5texttospeech5 libqt5waylandclient5 libqt5waylandcompositor5 libvoikko1 qtspeech5-speechd-plugin qtwayland5 sonnet-plugins 0 upgraded, 81 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
A bit too much to just install one soft. Hard pass.
