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25th March 2008, 09:10 PM
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File Cleanup
I searched for this and am pretty sure there is not a thread on this, but if there is I apologize. I was wondering, and this may be a complete "noob" question, but I just want to know if there is anyway to cleanup my files. I have various files in /bin or /etc that are from programs being removed, installed, reinstalled, installed wrong then installed correctly, etc. I was wondering if there is a way to clean this up and keep my filesystem organized. Thank you! (I know this may seem stupid but I am very OCD when it comes to computers and how they run and are organized.)
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25th March 2008, 10:48 PM
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Hello:
Yes, there are a couple: kleansweep (standard Fedora repos: yum install kleansweep):
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Description :
KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It
can search for files based on several criteria: you can seek for empty
files, backup files, broken symbolic links, dead menu entries, duplicated
files, orphaned files (files not found in the RPM database), and more.
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And fslint (standard Fedora repos: yum install fslint):
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Description :
FSlint is a utility to find redundant disk usage like duplicate files
for example. It can be used to reclaim disk space and fix other problems
like file naming issues and bad symlinks etc.
It includes a GTK+ GUI as well as a command line interface.
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These two apps are practically identical in function, if not form (I find kleansweep friendlier).
Regards,
V
P.S. As both of these apps will warn you: exercise great caution when deleting files that you are unsure of, especially files in important runtime folders like /bin.
Last edited by Hlingler; 25th March 2008 at 10:50 PM.
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25th March 2008, 10:51 PM
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Last edited by Nokia; 25th March 2008 at 10:53 PM.
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25th March 2008, 10:57 PM
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Nokia - Could you possibly let me know what that does so I have an idea before typing that into my terminal?
Hlingler - Thank you very much as soon as I get off work I will be giving those both a try.
Last edited by darko28; 25th March 2008 at 11:07 PM.
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25th March 2008, 11:02 PM
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It's perfectly safe. man command prints the manual pages for the given command, here package-cleanup.
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DESCRIPTION
package-cleanup is a program for cleaning up the locally-installed RPMs.
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25th March 2008, 11:21 PM
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Awesome thank you very much both of you.
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