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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
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
It looks like yay was storing AUR build files there, that folder took up about 160 of the 164GiB
You can use
yay -Scto clean the cache. It’ll also ask you if you want to clean the pacman cache, which I’m assuming you also haven’t cleaned (check the size of/var/cache/pacman).If it is true, it is a bug in yay. Cashe should not grow without limit.
Shouldn’t it store that stuff in data-home or state-home? Pikaur compiles in cache and stores it in data-home after.
You should try using paru, might be better off with it.
Paru cache is huge and you have to delete it manually with something like paru -Sc i think