Pacman is BLOATING Up My System! (Cleaning the cache in Arch Linux)

I had no idea about all this until last summer. I just landed a remote job. Did a routine system upgrade but... what? My partition with / is full? I had to do my first week or so of the new job on a dusty old Jetson TX2. I found the pacman -Sc command somewhere, freed up 2/3 of that partition, and life went back to normal. Except for the car not working, but that's another story.

I'm keeping a link to this video in my sys admin notes in case I ever forget again.

Thanks for this, i forgot to clean all that out and its been building up for a while. recovered 28.9 gigs of storage space

how did you list the folder content while writing the command?

This channel is really useful

Very helpful. I just cleared like 30 gigs from my arch vm. Thanks!

A very useful video especially for a beginner like me. I use Arch Linux and just two weeks ago, my root directory of 20 GB was nearly full and it was suggested to clean my cache sub-directory.
I just ran sudo pacman -Scc. I did not know any better. I did this and later used garted to increase my root partition to 70 GB. This video is quite useful to me. Thanks Eric

A good reminder for those who already may have this set.
For me, it's time to reclaim some storage. Thanks for another wonderful guide.

install gentoo

whats the best arch based ditro(ur opinion)??

Hi Eric, just curious what things can’t Pop OS! do while Arch can?

Another useful tool is downgrade on the AUR. If you've cleared you cache and realise you need to downgrade a package, you can downgrade the package using the downgrade tool.