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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

  • 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.