r/EndeavourOS • u/Able-Farm6295 • 4d ago

Discussion How to reduce EndeavourOS disk usage from 19 GB to 8 GB?

I thought EndeavourOS only needed around 8 GB of disk space, but my system is currently using 19 GB.

How can I safely clear the cache and unnecessary files to reduce disk usage?

Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/thefnord 4d ago

Fire up Disk Usage Analyzer and see what's taking your space. Go from there.

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u/red-skylight Tiling WM 4d ago

Check out how to clear the pacman cache

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u/enomad51 4d ago

Start with (clear cache for pacman): 

sudo pacman -Scc

... then analyze disk usage.

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u/OkSeaworthiness2727 4d ago

Add a pacman hook that clears out old files

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u/linux_rox 2d ago

The 8gb is literally the core linux software. Everything else you would need will increase teh space used. A majority of unneeded space usage is the pacman cache. My base install is around 19gb when you take into consideration of firewall and it's rules, supporting libraries of the software etc.

ETA: even the instlal medium recommends 30gb minimum for full install.

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u/PatFogle 1d ago

Do you have a 40gb disk? Linux is NOT windows and it isn't installing bloat. If your base system is only 19gb you're actually doing well, but you may be missing multimedia codecs or other things you might want for everyday use.