I have a question about keeping my disk space as clean as possible.
Why I ask:
Yesterday I had 350+ Gb of disk usage.
But today I returned to the disk image from December 2021, installed all missing packages, downloaded all files from backup, updated everything. Now I have 135Gb of used space. The same system, the same packages, the same files.
I read several articles about pacman cash, cleaning system, orphaned packages and didn’t find anything where I should search for these additional 200+ Gb.
How is it possible? Maybe I do something wrong? How is it possible to have 130Gb and around 350Gb on the same system? How should I keep my system as clean as possible?
I doubt it, because it is only 3,9 Gb of “unshared differences” between December and now. And I do not shapshot /home directory…
Maybe I am talking about something I do not understand fully, of course.
Is it possible for btrfs snapshots to be so lagre?
Cleaning cache was most assuredly big for me the last time. Not 200GB but it was a lot. It’s part of my routine. I have in my simple notes one for my maintenance.
This will be almost impossible to answer at this point since you have restored over the data. It could have been a lot of things but it is no longer possible to check.
Yes, I have this. Now it is actually 72 Gb as I moved all videos, records and backups to my storage. I just afraid that in 2-3 months it will be 350 Gb again. I will check it further as I see it isn’t an obvious question related to some simple mistake in OS maintenance I could made.
