[ale] [Rant] Fedora Package Caching

Joey Kelly joey at joeykelly.net
Wed Oct 4 13:16:19 EDT 2017


On 10/03/17 21:04, Ted W. wrote:
> Today my laptop warned me that disk space on / was running low. After
> investigation I found out the source was /var/cache/PackageKit. It was
> taking up over **24GB** of space of my 50GB root partition. 50GB!!!
> 
> My first question was, what the heck is PackageKit and why is it eating
> half of my root partition (10% of my ENTIRE DISK)!?

apt-get install FreeBSD && echo "problem solved"

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