(Sorry for the previous post I made that didn’t make my point clear enough)
Hello, I was trying to figure out how to use PlayOnLinux. Unfortunately, I had to install Windows software a couple of times and cancelled them but I am not sure if it is taking up extra space on my hard drive.
I downloaded Wine/Winetricks earlier and it said that I needed 254 packages. However, I uninstalled it using sudo zypper remove --clean-dep wine but it said that only 239 packages would be removed. I don’t know if this is also taking up extra space on my hard drive.
Is there any software to remove the cache (maybe something similar to Treesize)? I don’t know why I have used 100GB of disk space already.
What do you mean with wine instances? Delete the .wine directories/profiles. And/or simply uninstall unwanted wine applications via the wine installer.
Dependend which filesystem you are using, there are a massive amount of command line tools/GUI tools available to show directory/file system sizes.
Also check /var/log/ size. This may take up s lot of space.
If you use snapper, the snapshots may also take a lot of space.
You need to be aware that different tools use different „rounding“ of numbers, e.g. 1000 kb vs 1024 kb and so on.
The GUI tools for disk usage are good enough to get an understanding which directory is roughly taking up the most space
Good file mangers like Dolphin (KDE Plasma) can show directory/file sizes on their own. As example if you believe that your wine directory takes up to much space, right click on the directory and check the size. Or simply configure your file manager to show permanently the size in detail view.
And you may also read up on some basic commands like du and df: