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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

  • Dog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    Question, could you have cron/crontab do it monthly or something? Do it monthly meaning delete everything in ~/.cache every month or so?

      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        This is the good shit I miss from reddit. Thank you for posting a systemd service config, I’m going to implement this.

      • Zangoose@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for this! I’ve been meaning to start getting into learning more about systemd and making services, this is super detailed and gives me a pretty good starting point!

    • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      Don’t. You don’t need to clean it unless cache of some buggy program grows uncontrollable.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You could have a cronjob run something like find /home/user/.cache -type f -atime +30 -delete, which would find files that haven’t been accessed in the last 30 days and delete them. Make sure your home partition is not mounted with the noatime option though.

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I just found this today, I don’t really know anything about cron jobs but this will probably incentive me to learn lol

      • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Did you happen to see which subdirectory was using up this much space? I don’t think I’ve ever seen .cache go above 10GB, so this may be a bug in a piece of software you use.

          • Zangoose@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Looks like yay is storing every previous binary for AUR bin packages (also excuse the unreadable terminal theme, it doesn’t play very well with a lot of TUI apps unless they support custom theming)

            • neonred@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Wow, I’ve never seen something like this.

              Is it" allowed"? I mean, there are quotas for user homes.

            • Bronco1676@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              You should run yay -Sc from time to time. This cleans a) your pacman cache (which is normally done by executing pacman -Sc) b) your AUR build cache, which is what’s taking up 160GB. But this one seems rather unusual, I use paru (which also has the command paru -Sc), so I can’t really tell if this is normal with yay.

              The command also asks you for every directory if you want to delete it or not, so it’s completely save to run that command.