gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareTried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...gun@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarenotprogrammer@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoCan you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
minus-squaregun@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 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.
minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 days 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”.