[Usecase] Keep Chrome from needlessly chewing up GBs of worthless cache files

[hopeseekr]

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.

[grandchild]

The last line in the HowTo is missing a Default/.