[Usecase] Keep Chrome from needlessly chewing up GBs of worthless cache files
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Description
## HowTo
sudo modprobe nullfs
sudo mkdir -p /media/sinkhole
sudo mount -t nullfs none /media/sinkhole
rm -rvf ~/.cache/{chromium,google-chrome}/Default/Cache
ln -s /media/sinkhole ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache
ln -s /media/sinkhole ~/.cache/google-chrome/Cache
## Before
$ du -h ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/;
747M /home/tsmith/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/
458M /home/tsmith/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/
1.2G total
## After
0 /home/tsmith/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/
0 /home/tsmith/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/
0 total
It also will save on SSD wear-and-tear, and you won't even notice a performance drag as everything's stored in memory anyway.
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