gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up171arrow-down1message-squareTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenotprogrammer@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoCan you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
minus-squaregun@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoYeah my system was running out of space and I wanted to free a bit quickly. Turns out the issue was Rust building 20GB of binaries and I should have deleted those instead.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 month agoProbably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.
Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
Save space probably
Yeah my system was running out of space and I wanted to free a bit quickly. Turns out the issue was Rust building 20GB of binaries and I should have deleted those instead.
Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.