To increase disk space i can eliminate all caches, safe or no?

I often need to increase disc space, is it safe to delete caches? what else is saFr to delete?

Move the system to SSD device
Move all the media libraries and data to a "data" drive
Do a Safe Boot
Use Carbon Copy Cloner

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