Added tool-cache opt thx to @miketimofeev 🙏🏻

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -8,3 +8,13 @@ jobs:
       # If there is a problem with this GitHub Actions, this step will fail
       - name: Free Disk Space
         uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
+        with:
+          tool-cache: true
+
+          # all of these default to true, but feel free to set to
+          # false if necessary for your workflow
+          android: true
+          dotnet: true
+          haskell: true
+          large-packages: true
+          swap-storage: true

README.md

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 A customizable GitHub Actions to free disk space on Ubuntu GitHub Actions runners.
 
-On a typical Ubuntu runner, with all options turned on (or not turned off rather), this can clear up to 25 GB of disk space in about 3 minutes (the longest period is calling `apt` to uninstall packages).
+On a typical Ubuntu runner, with all options turned on (or not turned off rather), this can clear up to 25 GB of disk space in about 3 minutes (the longest period is calling `apt` to uninstall packages). This is useful when you need a lot of disk space to run computations.
 
-Please don't hesitate to [submit issues](https://github.com/jlumbroso/free-disk-space/issues) to report problems or suggest new features (or sets of files to help remove). Also, please ⭐️ the repo if you like this GitHub Actions! Thanks! 😊
+Please don't hesitate to [submit issues](https://github.com/jlumbroso/free-disk-space/issues) to report problems or suggest new features (or sets of files to help remove).
+
+Also, please ⭐️ the repo if you like this GitHub Actions! Thanks! 😊
 
 ## Example
 
@@ -20,6 +22,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
       uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
       with:
+        # this might remove tools that are actually needed
+        tool-cache: false
+        
         # all of these default to true, but feel free to set to
         # false if necessary for your workflow
         android: true
@@ -28,6 +33,11 @@ jobs:
         large-packages: true
         swap-storage: true
 ```
+## Options
+
+Most of the options are self-explanatory.
+
+The option `tool-cache` removes all the pre-cached tools (Node, Go, Python, Ruby, ...) that are loaded in a runner's environment, [installed in the path specified by the `AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY` environment variable](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/5a2cb18a48bce5da183486b95f5494e4fd0c0640/images/linux/scripts/installers/configure-environment.sh#L25-L29) (the same environment variable is used across Windows/macOS/Linux runners, see an example of its use on [the `setup-python` GitHub Action](https://github.com/actions/setup-python)). This option was [suggested](https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2875#issuecomment-1163392159) by [@miketimofeev](https://github.com/miketimofeev).
 
 ## Acknowledgement
 
@@ -37,6 +47,7 @@ Here are a few sources of inspiration:
 - https://github.community/t/bigger-github-hosted-runners-disk-space/17267/11
 - https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/tools/azure-pipelines/free_disk_space.sh
 - https://github.com/ShubhamTatvamasi/free-disk-space-action
+- https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2875#issuecomment-1163392159
 
 ## Typical Output
 

action.yml

@@ -20,13 +20,20 @@ inputs:
     required: false
     default: "true"
 
-  # option inspired after:
+  # option inspired by:
   # https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/tools/azure-pipelines/free_disk_space.sh
   large-packages:
     description: "Remove large packages"
     required: false
     default: "true"
 
+  # option inspired by:
+  # https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2875#issuecomment-1163392159
+  tool-cache:
+    description: "Remove image tool cache"
+    required: false
+    default: "false"
+
   swap-storage:
     description: "Remove swap storage"
     required: false
@@ -173,6 +180,19 @@ runs:
           printSavedSpace $SAVED "Large misc. packages"
         fi
 
+        # Option: Remove tool cache
+        # REF: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2875#issuecomment-1163392159
+
+        if [[ ${{ inputs.tool-cache }} == 'true' ]]; then
+          BEFORE=$(getAvailableSpace)
+
+          sudo rm -rf "$AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY"
+          
+          AFTER=$(getAvailableSpace)
+          SAVED=$((AFTER-BEFORE))
+          printSavedSpace $SAVED "Tool cache"
+        fi
+
         # Option: Remove Swap storage
 
         if [[ ${{ inputs.swap-storage }} == 'true' ]]; then