RE: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

["Stackpole, Chris" <CStackpole@barbnet.com>]

> From: Klistvud [mailto:quotations@aliceadsl.fr]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)
> 
> Dne, 24. 04. 2009 13:26:21 je Nuno Magalhães napisal(a):
> > Agreed, yet there's a techical question in there. What's your take? I
> > usually run apt-get autoremove and orphaner, clear /var/log stuff and
> > /var/cache/apt as well; yet i always do have the feeling that my /
> > oughta be smaller. Is there an option to autoremove unused files?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nuno Magalhães
> >
> 
> Well, there was a program once, called FSlint or something like that.
> Never used it personally, though.

I love FSlint. It will find duplicate files, empty directories, tmp files, bad names, name clashes, bad symlinks, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember. I use it to clean up the filesystem all the time.

I do use deborphan (and gtkorphan) as well to clean up the packages.

I also like filelight. A graphical drill down tool that helps find directories that are using up too much space. Yes, I use packages like find and du on the command line when I am in a hurry but sometimes the graphics are really cool to take into a meeting to say "See? This is how much space we are using!"

Hope that helps.

Have fun!

~Stack~