I created a partition for Ubuntu, and I just ran out of space a couple of days ago.
I used the Disk Usage Analyzer and I realized that for some reason the directory /home/.cache
uses up a lot of disk space; specifically the tracker
folder. What is recommended to do in order to prevent this cache and tracker folder to grow so much?
Best Answer
You can "pause" the Gnome Tracker by setting the configuration option
org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files.low-disk-space-limit
used bytracker-miner-fs
.Values indicate if we pause indexing at a percentage of low disk space (0-100% or -1 to disable the check entirely, 3 being the default value).
Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t) and type the following command to stop the tracker at 1%:
Source.