Comment on [OpenSuSE Tumbleweed] Move installed packages with zypper
lawmurray@programming.dev 11 months ago
You might want to confirm that it is indeed zypper packages before you rearrange too much: Disk Usage Analysis on the desktop, or du -sch * on the console will get you some numbers by directory. It could also be cached packages, clean them up with zypper clean --all.
I’m not sure about specifying different destination directories with zypper, but you could try installing something like vscode from Flatpak rather than zypper, and specifying --user so it goes into your home directory (if that’s a different partition).
I’d also look at your containers with podman and clean up any old ones, they can take up a lot of space.
xtapa@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I’ve found the du command (but with other flags) and it led me to some old snapshots that took up a good chunk of space. du -sch revealed some 5gb of junk in my download folder, so that was a good call too ;D
zypper clean did not too much, but I got ~40gb of space back, so thats nice. I’ll probably try to replace some of the not so close to the system stuff with flatpaks. Thats a thing I wanted to dive deeper into anyways.
For podman, I only just installed it because I wanted to learn more about container / docker stuff (it’s part of my daily professional life, but I always feel like I don’t actually know anything about it), so theres nothing to be removed. It was just the package that made me aware of the little space I had left on my disk.
Thanks, you’ve been a great help :)