@hawthornbunny@equestria.social
Post #1174847
2026-03-19 12:19 UTC
I was trying to figure out where all the space on my hard drive went, since my home directory didn't seem to account for a huge percentage of it. Eventually I realized it was the pacman cache. Running `pacman -Sc` to clean up unneeded files got me back 70 GB of space! #linux #arch #pacman
Replies (3)
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@brambleshadow4@equestria.social 2026-03-19 13:21
@hawthornbunny@equestria.social wow, that's a huge win!
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@woof@meow.social 2026-03-19 13:54
@hawthornbunny@equestria.social Always nice to find something taking up space you can delete like that. Although it seems like a bug that the OS allowed it to grow so much! Cache/temp files should be cleaned automatically.
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@saphkey@equestria.social 2026-03-19 18:09
@hawthornbunny@equestria.social worst part is when you have limited your OS partition to mainly just your OS in size. But then a program insists on only storing cache in %user%/appdata (meaning on the OS drive) Looking at VRChat for example, those gigabytes of cache for avatars and worlds add up so fast