I have been using Endeavour for a couple of days now and I like it a lot, however I ran into a problem when trying to install a package using yay. For context, my system is installed on a 256 GB SSD and after a scan (excluding the 128 TiB proc folder) all of the folders add up to just over 40 GB. After installing the aforementioned package from the AUR, whose dependencies include electron25, it began installing chromium-mirror packages many GB in size, after a while I realized something was not right so I aborted the operation. After aborting the operation I noticed that Dolphin now says I only have 26GB free on my system, keep in mind the scan still says all the folders are only ~40 GB in size. I have already tried clearing pacman and yay cache, manually searching for electron and chromium packages, listing all installed packages using pacman and yan -Qm, and at this point I have been searching for hours with no hope.
tl;dr: A package downloaded a huge chromium source package that is now nowhere to be found in the system taking >100GB out of a 256GB SSD.
Thanks for the reply, unfortunately there is nothing relating to the issue there (at least not that I think of), just cache for btdu, completion cache and an empty json file.
Hmm, maybe something installed. Not 100% sure but pacman -Qe or Qm should list what is installed, if it did install it should show up here but the amount of disk space it is taking is odd and I would assume most of this to be from the build and still in cache but I could be way off track
On the AUR it is called āscreen-recorder-appā, the github repo is also minuscule compared to itās dependencies. I may be wrong but Iām guessing it tried to build chromium from source instead of using a binary package.
Whenever Iāve got giant piles of mystery files to find I fire up qdirstat
It will scan your disk and report sizes by directory which may point you to the place to drill down and hunt for what youāre after, and if you select a given directory it also shows a visualisation below where larger files appear as bigger āblocksā
I am not quite sure what the question is asking so Iāll give two answers.
If the question is if I know why it would install, my answer would probably be in electron, since looking at itās page shows tons of chromium-mirror sources.
If the question is rhetoric then my answer is I am new to the Arch in general and have been a Windows user for the past 10 years.
After doing a scan my biggest folder is the home folder with Steam, Spotify, etc., so nothing out of place, Now I am just wondering whether chromium isnāt there and Dolphin is just bugging out, I might try downloading something big like Counter-Strike to see if it works, if it does then itās visual, if not then I will do more digging.
Unfortunatly I have no idea but someone smarter with this info should hopefully be able to help some more.
Side thought is it possible a game from steam is taking this space up?
