gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenotprogrammer@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoCan you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoProbably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.
minus-squaregun@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 hours 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.
Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
Probably the number one cause of borked Linux systems - trying to “de-bloat”.
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.