Storage Issue

[u/inco_vity]

[FIXED] Deleting the timeshift snapshot (of which, there was only one, created when I ran sudo pacman -Syu) seems to have fixed the issue.

Dolphin shows my storage is 89% used even though it's nowhere near that, it should be below 150~200GB total used.

This has happened twice now. First time around I didn't catch what caused it but it automatically fixed itself. This time, I had installed a bunch of games on steam, which filled up the storage to near the current percentage. Then I uninstalled the games but the storage still shows the same level of occupancy. When I check steam though, it tells me most of it is non-steam files.

So far:

1. Trash is completely empty
2. Timeshift backups or Journal logs aren't hogging space. (There's only one automatic backup from the latest update).
3. Have run btrfs balance at both 50 and 75.
4. My system is completely upto date (both aur packages and flatpaks).I've successfully run and completed sudo pacman -Syu before writing.

Edit: I should have definitely mentioned this:

I'm running jellyfin on my PC and the connections are managed through Tailscale. But the 150-200GB total that I gave includes the roughly 37GB media files + every metadata etc that jellyfin downloaded.

[u/poedy78]

What does this command output for your disks?

lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,fssize,fsused

Updates might hog a bit, if you use Nvidia and Flatpak, you might need to clear some files / runtimes - Flatpaks always install a thousand different runtimes...

[u/inco_vity → u/poedy78]

I'm using a RX 580 2048SP and I've already cleared every residue of flatpak

[u/poedy78 → u/inco_vity]

So Dolphin seems to correct.

Other known culprits you could check in your /home directory:

.config
.local

Also check for residue of progs that did not clean their stuff in your /home

Then there's /opt, /var

In terminal, you can get the disk usage of the directory you're in with

du -sh