Can I delete the packages folder under the global .meteor? I just realized it's 18.5GB

[waldgeist]

Yes, you can. Meteor will rebuild the required parts automatically.

Here’s another option:

Clean up your Meteor package cache!

As you may know, Meteor stores downloaded Atmosphere packages in a cache in your user directory (~/.meteor/packages). However, the longer you use Meteor, the more packages and package updates are downloaded and the larger this cache will get because Meteor doesn’t remove old or unused packages (yet). There is a request for this feature but until it’s implemented in the Meteor tool, you can use my meteor-cleaner npm package to remove unused packages and free up (a lot of) disk space! …