# Unusual Space Usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbie\ **Created:** [July 16, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127 "2024-07-16T18:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/1 "2024-07-16T18:18:26Z")
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. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/2 "2024-07-16T18:22:02Z")
look under your home folder .cache/yay/ for it ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/3 "2024-07-16T18:29:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/4 "2024-07-16T18:33:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/5 "2024-07-16T18:34:07Z")
How big is that directory? ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/6 "2024-07-16T18:35:47Z")
-Qe yields no results for chromium or electron, or any package I don’t recognize for that matter, and also the cache directory is 3.8 MiB. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/7 "2024-07-16T18:39:06Z")
What package did you try install? Just so I can see what is what afformentioned without mentioning means little so everyone can only guess here ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/8 "2024-07-16T18:40:52Z")
On the AUR it is called “screen-recorder-app”, the github repo is also minuscule compared to it’s dependencies. I may be wrong but I’m guessing it tried to build chromium from source instead of using a binary package. ---
**Author:** ![z580c](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/z580c/32/98828_2.png) [@z580c](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/z580c)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/9 "2024-07-16T18:42:44Z")
Whenever I’ve got giant piles of mystery files to find I fire up [qdirstat](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/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 you’re after, and if you select a given directory it also shows a visualisation below where larger files appear as bigger ‘blocks’ ![Screenshot_20240716_194202](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/e/ee4048e66d038a75a28b47f52b3da1442e6ffb3d.png) ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/10 "2024-07-16T18:44:09Z")
Ok after a quick look at that wondering why you think chromium installed? ![Screenshot_20240717_044212](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/c/0cc1a40e4be40e2d5fe321f0a94d136f0cab1a81.png) These are the dependancies ---
**Author:** ![pebcak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/pebcak/32/100472_2.png) [@pebcak](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/pebcak)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/11 "2024-07-16T18:45:48Z")
Electron practically embeds Chromium into the binary. ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/12 "2024-07-16T18:46:51Z")
I am not quite sure what the question is asking so I’ll give two answers. If the question is if I know why it would install, my answer would probably be in electron, since looking at it’s 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. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/13 "2024-07-16T18:47:44Z")
I could be wrong but seeing nothing here either [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron25?all\_deps=1#pkgdeps](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron25?all_deps=1#pkgdeps) ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/14 "2024-07-16T18:49:32Z")
> [@ThatOneWapa](#): > > If the question is rhetoric No I’m trying to help and learn myself, sorry if you thought otherwise ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/15 "2024-07-16T18:50:43Z")
Yes I see it shows it as source but not as a dependcy from my understanding ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/16 "2024-07-16T18:51:37Z")
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 isn’t 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 it’s visual, if not then I will do more digging. ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/17 "2024-07-16T18:55:12Z")
![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/5/b55ce8f7d01baa36247fdd7c8015f3da3fa77b7e.png) Steam also shows a lack of space, I do not know what could be the issue now. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/18 "2024-07-16T18:55:20Z")
Have you tried a reboot/logging in out to see if it changes? Dolphin can be dodgey at times with disk size ---
**Author:** ![ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/90ced4/32.png) [@ThatOneWapa](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/ThatOneWapa)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/19 "2024-07-16T18:56:08Z")
Yes, I have restarted several times today to observe any changes, unfortunately no change came about. ---
**Author:** ![smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/smokey/32/133678_2.png) [@smokey](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/smokey)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127/20 "2024-07-16T18:58:39Z")
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? [Next page](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/unusual-space-usage/58127.md?page=2)