#[Fixed] /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects WAY too large and nothing fixes it

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broken sonnet
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This issue has been a plague ever since i installed arch last year. My root partition is 50gb which i thought would be enough but this folder making up literally 12,3gb was NOT planned. no matter what I do it doesnt work. I already deleted the entire folders contents, ran sudo flatpak repair and it came BACK in full size. heres all the things i ran

flatpak repair --user
sudo ostree prune --repo=/var/lib/flatpak/repo
sudo flatpak repair

None of this helped and this folder is still one of the biggest in my entire root partition. I kept reading that people running those three commands above magically fixed it and reduced the size to less than a gigabyte, but none of them helped me at all. Not even basically deleting it all.
Please help fix this.

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/var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects WAY too large and i cant seem to fix it

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/var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects WAY too large and nothing fixes it

hot meadow
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@broken sonnet flatpak uninstall --unused

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and remove /var/tmp/flatpak-cache

broken sonnet
broken sonnet
hot meadow
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@broken sonnet what flatpak app(s) are you using?

broken sonnet
broken sonnet
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this is the output of sudo flatpak list

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this same issue happened not just on this install

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i reinstalled arch a few times before and the same folder was always this large

broken sonnet
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!!![Still need Help]!!! /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects WAY too large and nothing fixes it

hot meadow
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@broken sonnet why not use the native packages instead?

broken sonnet
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i need help with flatpaks taking up too much of my root partition and not try and switch every single package i could to the AUR version if there even is one for all of them

hot meadow
broken sonnet
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plus with some of these the flatpaks just run better

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like OBS allows me to use certain plugins that i cant on the system install

hot meadow
broken sonnet
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@hot meadow this does not help in any way shape or form

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im trying to fix my flatpaks and not get reasons to remove flatpaks from my systems

hot meadow
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flatpak --columns=app,name,size,installation list

broken sonnet
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what i dont understand is usually most of the data of flatpaks is installed in .var in the home folder

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so /var/lib/flatpak/repo/objects being THIS massive doesnt make sense at all

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especially since a lot of people reported that they fixed it to get down to around 100mb

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but the commands they used never fixed my issues

hot meadow
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sudo flatpak repair

broken sonnet
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the flatpaks are ofcourse large but thats not my issue its just that specific folder\

broken sonnet
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like actually

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im sorry but

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i already did that around 5 times

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" heres all the things i ran:"

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i already ran a lot of commands i found in reddit post or just general forums and none of them worked

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this is my issue

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and i dont know what this folder is even doing

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since i deleted it all and my flatpak restored it back to its full size

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Also you sent me links of the OBS and nextcloud flatpak, theres a reason I use these. Nextcloud flatpak was the only one that WORKED and OBS just generally is better on the flatpak since its official im pretty sure

hot meadow
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@broken sonnet are the flatpaks updated?

broken sonnet
broken sonnet
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aaa

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help

broken sonnet
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....im so stupid

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the entire issue is

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that my packages are installed systemwide not userwide

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ofcourse my root partition is so massive

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i added flathub as a systemrepo and not a user repo by specifying --user

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how can i be such a dunce