How to Save space , System taking too much Space

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Hello Garuda users.

garuda-inxi

  • Despite removing all snapshots and rebooting , In /.snapshots there are still 3 snapshots taking up space I don't know how to remove them ,

  • Also how much space does a vanilla install of kde-garuda takes , I have removed all the stuffs I don't need and only have a 27Gb windows Virtualbox file .

  • Please suggest me best way to identify what programs are taking most space , currently I use FileLight but it confuses me by showing all files in snapshot .

Please don't say you have so much free storage , I need it for games as they run better on SSD .

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You can choose folders to exclude in Filelight or just scan specific folders like /var and /home.
Did you clear pacman cache?

sudo pacman -Scc
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Are you using Snapper Tools to delete the snapshots? There's also settings in Garuda Assistant for snapper as well. There's a recent post related to this, perhaps something in there could help

As for storage management, I've grown to like gdu. It's a nice little terminal app that will list out largest files on top, and gives you simple options to delete, open in a file manager, etc.

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What to exclude in FileLight var lib all are in snapshots
I removed all cached packages and files using Stacer cleaner feature

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Exclude /.snapshots, you can use BTRFS assistant to clear remaining snapshots.

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I have removed

garuda
garuda940×745 61.9 KB

I mean windows used to use this much space
50 GB , out of which 27GB is Virtualbox file
and remaining 23 GB is system ??

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Scan your /home and /var folders. These are the places that are most likely to take space. Uninstall programs you don't use.

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final
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Please do not post screenshots of terminal output, copy and paste the text whenever you can.

Post the output of

sudo btrfs subvolume list /
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ID 256 gen 13066 top level 5 path @_backup_20231602013043985
ID 257 gen 13416 top level 5 path @home
ID 258 gen 13134 top level 5 path @root
ID 259 gen 13066 top level 5 path @srv
ID 260 gen 13164 top level 5 path @cache
ID 261 gen 13416 top level 5 path @log
ID 262 gen 13165 top level 5 path @tmp
ID 263 gen 13151 top level 288 path .snapshots
ID 288 gen 13416 top level 5 path @
ID 495 gen 13148 top level 263 path .snapshots/1/snapshot
ID 496 gen 13149 top level 263 path .snapshots/2/snapshot

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This is a non-standard top level subvolume, probably generated by some snapshot restoration weirdness. See if it shows up in the "subvolume" tab of Btrfs Assistant. Deleting that subvolume may free up a few more GB.

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I have deleted and rebooted , it has freed up 3Gb more

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