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  • pacman -cc to clean the entire cache including installed packages I think. Not normally recommended as you may want those as backups later. Commented Sep 14, 2010 at 21:22
  • @xeno, I already mount a diretory on my desktop for --cachedir, so I don't need to keep any pkg files. Commented Sep 14, 2010 at 22:35
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    For clearing space on /, I found pacgraph really useful. It can sort your installed packages by size, so you can better prioritise what it makes sense to remove. (It can even draw SVG dependency graphs, but is useful from just the command line.) Commented Jan 14, 2014 at 10:34
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    ncdu is a cool command-line alternative to xdiskusage. Baobab is by far the best graphical app for this purpose though. Commented May 9, 2015 at 18:27