Uninstalled SDODS and got almost no disk space back

Asked 8 Oct 20243,980 views2 answers

12votes

Ran the uninstall and it reported success:

bash

curl -fsSL https://sdods.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --uninstall --yes

It removed the install root and the command. But df barely moved. I was expecting most of a gigabyte.

asked by Anouk de Vries238 · 8 Oct 2024

2 answers

16votes
The browser engines are the gigabyte, and they are not in the install root. They live in the shared Playwright cache, which the uninstall leaves alone deliberately — deleting it would break any other tool on the machine that uses the same engines.
The uninstall prints the two lines at the end for exactly this reason:
bash
```
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright     # macOS
rm -rf ~/.cache/ms-playwright            # Linux
```
Workspaces you created are also untouched, which is the other place the space can be hiding if you scaffolded a few and forgot.
answered by Daniel Oyelaranmaintainer24,177 · 8 Oct 2024
5votes
Also check that you had not previously installed from source into a different home. If you ever passed --dir, the uninstall only removes the root it is pointed at, so an older tree can sit there indefinitely with nobody referencing it.
answered by Helle Borg352 · 9 Oct 2024

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