Cleaning out my closet
linux
Or: Finding out what crud you installed that’s eating all of your space in Arch Linux
I started running out of space on one of my Arch boxes and wondered (beyond what was in my home directory) what I’d installed that was eating up all the space.
A little bit of bash-fu does the job:
for pkg in $(pacman -Qq); do size=$(pacman -Qi $pkg | grep "Installed Size" | cut -d ":" -f 2) echo "$size | $pkg" done | sed -e 's/ //g' | sort -h
This outputs a list of packages with those using the most disk space at the bottom:
25.99MiB|llvm-libs 31.68MiB|raspberrypi-firmware-examples 32.69MiB|systemd 32.86MiB|glibc 41.88MiB|perl 54.31MiB|gtk2 62.13MiB|python2 73.27MiB|gcc 77.93MiB|python 84.21MiB|linux-firmware
The above is from my pi; not much I can uninstall there ;)