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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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
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[-] tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 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 🤷‍♀️

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

I can't tell if this is the new "Delete System32" or not.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

no, that'd be deleting /boot, /usr or /var

[-] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 2 points 10 months ago
[-] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

because then it also deletes your personal files which is not equivalent to deleting System32

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago
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