Alt Text
A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
A screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system
You could try something like:
$HOME/.config/systemd/user/clean-user-cache.service
[Unit] Description=Clear cache After=network.target [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/rm -r %h/.cache/* %h/.cache/.* [Install] WantedBy=default.target$HOME/.config/systemd/user/clean-user-cache.timer
[Unit] Description=Clear user's cache every month [Timer] # Runs on midnight on the first day of the month OnCalendar=monthly # Wait a random time between 0 and 10 minutes before invocation. This prevents your FS getting hammered if you deploy this script for multiple users that all log on after a reboot. RandomizedDelaySec=10min # Enable persistence to run the command even if the machine wasn't on at the time the timer was supposed to trigger Persistent=trueTo enable the monthly timer:
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload$ systemctl --user enable clean-user-cache.timerTo clean the cache once, right now:
$ systemctl --user start clean-user-cache.serviceTo see the output of the service (and past executions, if they happened recently):
$ journalctl --user -u clean-user-cache.serviceThis relies on a systemd user service (better not do
rms as root, just in case) so you need to log in for it to work. You could also use a system service withUser=andGroup=in case you’re removing the cache on a server you rarely ever log into.This is the good shit I miss from reddit. Thank you for posting a systemd service config, I’m going to implement this.
Thanks for this! I’ve been meaning to start getting into learning more about systemd and making services, this is super detailed and gives me a pretty good starting point!