How i can clean space on my System

Issues & Assistance
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There’s a app like Geek for Linux? how i can clean space on the disk i have like 20 gb and i don’t have things really heavy

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I never heard of ‘Geek for Linux’ or have any idea what it would do…

@cscs might approve of this one…
https://cscs.tech/maclean/

However, if you only have 20GB, I think you aren’t serious about running Linux - 20GB is paltry, even if you had an ultra budget 250GB SSD as your main drive.

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Used very carefully, BleachBit can delete unused language files, similar to localepurge (on Debian systems).

Also, /home/username/.cache/* might contain stuff you could delete. And ironically, web browers sometimes DON’T delete what they claim they do in /tmp/*

If you’re using wine, don’t forget to clean out the windows temp locations, of where there are a few (topic for a different discussion). At the very least, you could empty out c:\Windows\Temp

Also, some systems (Ubuntu Studio, I’m looking at you!) might have too many fonts stored in /usr/share/fonts/*

I have had a little bit of luck with both BleachBit and Stacer.
BleachBit allows carefully adding custom locations.

Also, maybe shrink your swapfile/SWAP partition if you have one.

Good luck.

P.S.-set your browsers to incognito/private mode and use their internal settings to clear out temporary/private files.

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Geek is app to uninstall programs completly without cache config files or anything

thanks omg bro i recovered like 15 gb

6

There is sweeper.

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Don’t forget to clear pacman cache. It can get quite large, maybe keep an eye on the cache from whatever AUR helper you use too.

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This is done by maclean, too. But as @CacheMeIfYouCan already said: 20GB is not enough for running a desktop OS and I would second that. My / partition uses a whopping 80GB already and that does not include my user data, the games or the biggies like all the Wine-prefixes and containers.

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it is enough, when you keep the system lean an clean and it is also possible with cachy, when the “arch way of installation” is chosen… but comfortable can be something different.

edit:

the tool to manage pacman cache is paccache

paccache -h
paccache v1.13.1

Flexible pacman cache cleaning utility.

Usage: paccache <operation> [options] [target ...]

Operations:
  -d, --dryrun      perform a dry run, only finding candidate packages
  -m, --move <dir>  move candidate packages to "dir"
  -r, --remove      remove candidate packages

Options:
  -a, --arch <arch>       scan for "arch" (default: all architectures)
  -c, --cachedir <dir>    scan "dir" for packages. can be used more than once
                          (default: read from /etc/pacman.conf)
  -f, --force             apply force to mv(1) and rm(1) operations
  -h, --help              display this help message and exit
  -i, --ignore <pkgs>     ignore "pkgs", comma-separated. Alternatively, specify
                          "-" to read package names from stdin, newline-
                          delimited
  -k, --keep <num>        keep "num" of each package in the cache (default: 3)
      --min-atime <time>
      --min-mtime <time>  keep packages with an atime/mtime that is not older
                          than the time given, even if this means keeping more
                          than specified through the '--keep' option. Accepts
                          arguments according to 'info "Date input formats"',
                          e.g. '30 days ago'
      --nocolor           do not colorize output
  -z, --null              use null delimiters for candidate names (only with -v
                          and -vv)
  -q, --quiet             minimize output
  -u, --uninstalled       target uninstalled packages
  -v, --verbose           increase verbosity. specify up to 3 times
  -V, --version           display version information and exit
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Agreed.
But for the record that is what maclean uses as part of the various routines.
Specifically paccache -rvk2. :slight_smile:

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I have a regular CachyOS maintenance routine. I do this every 4-6 weeks. I use yay, I’ve not used this with paru…

UPDATE SYSTEM:
yay

UPDATE CACHYOS MIRRORS:
sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors

UPDATE ARCH MIRRORS:
reflector --protocol https --verbose --latest 25 --sort rate | sudo tee /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

AFTER UPDATING MIRRORLISTS, UPDATE SYSTEM:
yay -Syyuu

CLEAN JOURNAL:
sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=4weeks

CLEAN CACHE (All Packages):
paccache -rvk2

CLEAN CACHE (Uninstalled Packages):
paccache -ruk0

REMOVE ORPHANS:
yay -Yc

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Your clean schedule also works with paru, excepting for your last cli to remove orphans, this one should be : paru -c

13

Good to know. Thanks!

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There is a application called Filelight that can break it down into a interactive pie chart that can help you track down where space is being used/wasted.

15

Ah, yes - you can just find that by looking at Properties on a folder…

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Yes, but filelight brings it all together at once in a single chart, no clicking around through folders looking for hidden stuff.

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I’m sorta with you. I allocate enough storage to reasonably be able to operate (roughly 2 GB), and periodically I prune my own messy trash (because the sytem trash like cache will just refill anyway) using FileLight. I’ve thus never deleted anything unintentionally on an Arch-based distro. I can’t say I’ve never done anythng accidentally on any Linux, because you know, back in the 80s i was learning and we’ve ALL done stuff.