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Maybe you have a swap file that happens to be 16GB ?

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I only allowed 4G for swap, maybe arch enabled zram and it used 8GB by default and I actually don’t need to create a swap partition?

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Arch doesn’t really do anything you don’t tell it to do during installation.
That’s the entire point. After installing Arch, you know what your system does, cause you configured it.

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You can try using # du -h -d 1 / to locate the largest directory under /. Once you’ve located the largest directory, replace / with that directory. Repeat that until you find the culprit (if there is a single large directory).

EDIT (2024-07-22T19:34Z): As suggested by @DarkThoughts@fedia.io, you can also use a program like Filelight, which provides a visual and more comprehensive breakdown of the sizes of directories.

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You can use Filelight which is much simpler and more visual.

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But it doesn’t make you feel like hackerman

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goddamn does it ever feel good to feel like a hackerman

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Agreed.

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ncdu for the terminal. Also enables you to delete folders/files.

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gdu is another alternative. It is sometimes faster than ncdu for me.

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You’re a life saver I finally found the culprit

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Do tell! We need a follow up :)

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It’s “Steam” inside .local eat up 6GB even though I have not open it yet and tmp files (almost 5GB) that is not clear itself after installing the OS

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Df does that too, or did you mean du?

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Whoops! You are correct — I have updated the original comment. I’m not sure why I wrote df instead of du. This is a good example of why one should always be wary of blindly copying commands 😜 It begins to teeter on being potentially disastrous if I had instead wrote dd.

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Luckily the syntax wouldn’t have worked if it was dd

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Or you could use baobab to do the same thing if you want an answer within 10 minutes.

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Or dust if you want it fastest with a pretty graph

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It might have something to do with the dolphin you’re keeping in there.

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?

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Dolphins are quite large

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But they’re faster than lightning.

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Try the following command to list all installed packages sorted by size [source]:

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 pacman -Qi | awk '/^Name/{name=$3} /^Installed Size/{print $4$5, name}' | LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sort -h

There may be some unexpectedly large packages installed.

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Freash on a leak

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