| 3 Apr 2026 |
 emily | maybe some builds have really huge build dirs, but those will also likely be big-parallel and so little contention | 22:54:47 |
| emily | did nothing stand out in ncdu? | 22:54:55 |
 hexa | 
Download | 22:55:46 |
| emily | /private is /var + /tmp | 22:56:18 |
| emily |
/etc I guess but I hope it's not /etc
| 22:56:27 |
| emily | * + /etc I guess but I hope it's not /etc | 22:56:30 |
 alexfmpe | apparently I'm unable to get this room in particular in the suggestions when trying to #-mention it in another on element web client | 22:56:49 |
| alexfmpe | probably related, what is up with the room name? | 22:57:01 |
| emily | btw, /macOS Install Data is not load-bearing 😅 | 22:57:14 |
| alexfmpe | e.g.
https://app.element.io/#/room/!lheuhImcToQZYTQTuI:nixos.org
vs
https://app.element.io/#/room/#cross-compiling:nixos.org | 22:57:17 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:57:20 |
| emily | that's just an update installer that's lying around | 22:57:21 |
| emily | so there's 3 free gigs already | 22:57:28 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:57:38 |
| emily | ok, /var/folders is temporary directories | 22:57:45 |
| emily | (per-user etc.) | 22:57:55 |
| emily | so something is using crazy amounts of $TMPDIR | 22:58:03 |
| hexa | it will be nix, right? | 22:58:13 |
| emily | probably not? | 22:58:20 |
| emily | Nix uses /tmp and /nix/var/nix/builds | 22:58:24 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:58:28 |
| hexa | 
Download | 22:58:40 |
| emily | you can get stuff in /var/folders running commands as a user, but it'd be pretty surprising for it to use up tons of space because of being a builder I feel | 22:58:44 |
| hexa | uh, wanna hop on a quick call instead of spamming this room? | 22:58:50 |
| emily | honestly I should really be going to sleep rather than getting sniped by this 🫠 | 22:59:17 |
| hexa | split brain on the spaces and many rooms I'm afraid. we need to upgrade them | 22:59:24 |
 samasaur | what's that /clang in /var/folders/.../C? that's not temp files | 22:59:32 |
| emily | but that clang cache directory is very weird, kind of makes me think it's just some leftover garbage | 22:59:40 |
| emily | /C is caches iirc | 22:59:56 |
| emily |
Provides the path to the user's cache directory. The directory will be created if it does not already exist. This directory is created with access permissions of 0700 and restricted by the umask(2) of the calling process and is a good location for user cache data as it will not be automatically cleaned by the system.
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