Disclaimer

Flatpak uses OSTree, like Fedora Atomic Desktops (Silverblue, Kinoite etc) and similar to BTRFS snapshots.

So many files are deduplicated and linked, not actually there

https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton/flatpak-dedup-checker

50GB without
31GB with deduplication
21,4GB with BTRFS compression
  • tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    10 months ago

    Removing /repo is not considered safe, but I just removed its contents anyways and then just ran a repair.

    That actually resulted in more available disk space than after running the garbage collection.

    And my flatpak apps still work 🤷‍♀️