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keepitsimpleengineer
Asked: 2011-12-13 17:35:25 +0800 CST

How to move the user cache directory [~/.cache] out of the /home directory to another partition

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The .cache directory is full of volatile, non-essential files.

I would like to move it to a more appropriate partition, i.e. faster and not backed up.

I believe that ~/.pam_environment file is appropriate for this but am not sure if is the best or if it is documented properly or working properly.

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    If you don't care about keeping the stuff there across reboots, you can use tmpfs to store the cache.

    Set something like the following in /etc/fstab:

    tmpfs /home/someuser/.cache tmpfs defaults,size=512M 0 0

    Now, your .cache will be stored in memory instead of on disk, though if you have insufficient memory it could end up being swapped out.

    A more traditional approach would be to move the directory to wherever you like and symlink it as appropriate:

    mv ~/.cache /some/other/place
ln -s /some/other/place/.cache ~/
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