Since I don't have a large hard drive, I have to be pretty stingy about my disk usage or else I run out of space.

Well, today I noticed that I was missing quite a bit of space even though I don't remember getting any new large files. After a bit of investigation, I noticed that my /var is quite a bit larger than normal. So I fired up Filelight to investigate. Here's what I saw:



Most of this new "stuff" was in the /var/tmp/kdecache-me, in a discreet folder called "kpc". What's in it?

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$ ls /var/tmp/kdecache-alec/kpc
kde-icon-cache.data              plasma_theme_Bare_Naked.index    plasma_theme_blue.data
kde-icon-cache.index             plasma_theme_Cream.data          plasma_theme_blue.index
kde-icon-cache.lock.SL3353       plasma_theme_Cream.index         plasma_theme_default.data
kde-icon-cache.updated           plasma_theme_Droid.data          plasma_theme_default.index
kmines-cache.data                plasma_theme_Droid.index         plasma_theme_new-theme.data
kmines-cache.index               plasma_theme_Eleonora.data       plasma_theme_new-theme.index
knetwalk-cache.data              plasma_theme_Eleonora.index      plasma_theme_new-theme2.data
knetwalk-cache.index             plasma_theme_Mist.data           plasma_theme_new-theme2.index
plasma_theme_.customized.data    plasma_theme_Mist.index          plasma_theme_ozone_gray.data
plasma_theme_.customized.index   plasma_theme_Naked.data          plasma_theme_ozone_gray.index
plasma_theme_.customized1.data   plasma_theme_Naked.index         plasma_theme_slim-glow.data
plasma_theme_.customized1.index  plasma_theme_Nitro.data          plasma_theme_slim-glow.index
plasma_theme_Atelier.data        plasma_theme_Nitro.index         plasma_theme_spoons-lite.data
plasma_theme_Atelier.index       plasma_theme_Professional.data   plasma_theme_spoons-lite.index
plasma_theme_Aya.data            plasma_theme_Professional.index  plasma_theme_spoons.data
plasma_theme_Aya.index           plasma_theme_TheTheme.data       plasma_theme_spoons.index
plasma_theme_Bare_Naked.data     plasma_theme_TheTheme.index


That's every theme I tried in the last few days, each taking up exactly 152.6 MB of disk space, totaling up to over 3.1 GB!

So if you ever tested any plasma themes and need to free up a bit of space, here's where you can look.