baloo
is a KDE desktop search component that indexes files in order to speed up the search.
The index can get quite large, e.g. my index consumes more than 2 GB of HDD space:
$ balooctl indexSize Actual Size: 2,04 GiB Expected Size: 1,33 GiB PostingDB: 313,32 MiB 22.924 % PosistionDB: 521,05 MiB 38.122 % DocTerms: 167,93 MiB 12.287 % DocFilenameTerms: 53,46 MiB 3.912 % DocXattrTerms: 0 B 0.000 % IdTree: 9,79 MiB 0.716 % IdFileName: 41,71 MiB 3.052 % DocTime: 25,80 MiB 1.887 % DocData: 2,02 MiB 0.148 % ContentIndexingDB: 14,86 MiB 1.087 % FailedIdsDB: 0 B 0.000 % MTimeDB: 9,12 MiB 0.667 %
If you don’t want to use baloo
anyway or if you just want to re-index all files, you might want to delete the entire index:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo
Note that if you haven’t disabled baloo using balooctl stop ; balooctl disable
it might silently re-create the index in the background.