Filesystem cruft script: clean your system, save disk space!

mhodak · Veteran Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1218

I am getting this error:

holmis · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Sweden

ecatmur · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks, fixed now. I put that in to fix a monodevelop bug, but got the syntax wrong. :oops:

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djm · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 2:14 pm Post subject:

It keeps coming up with

ecatmur · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

Well, I don't run Xfce so I'm happy to take your advice. Added.
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ecatmur · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject:

OK, release 0.0.8 "Accession, accession, accession".
Now with perl 5.8.4 perllocal.pod, reiser3 extended attributes, and most importantly i18nised for non-A-Z locales (ee_EE, that means you.)
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windzor · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 50

Just played a little with the script. I did find something and i cleaned that. But, there was something I found that I thing shouldn't be removed.

Yes i know something is backup, but i love backups

ecatmur · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

OK... anything ending ~ is junk. You want backups, you keep them somewhere else.

nvidia stuff: use the nvidia-glx ebuild.

kahakai themes: put them in /usr/local or write an ebuild.

man pages: nuke them.

/etc/env.d/90games - is this yours?

/etc/nanorc - unmerging nano isn't the smartest, but if you wanted to, get rid of config files as well...

/var/lib/scrollkeeper should belong to scrollkeeper - is it installed?

/usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-* should belong to gcc-config - is it installed?

python 2.2: if you don't have it, nuke it.

python 2.3 svn stuff - are python 2.3 and svn installed?
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ecatmur · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

/etc/mail/aliases.db - which MTA are you using?

/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome etc. - OK, added.

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el - no idea. Run cruft-blame.py on it and see what pops out.

/var/run/cron.pid - what cron are you using and is it running? Have you changed cron?

ppp, pppoe: done, I hope

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windzor · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 50

ecatmur >> both scroolkeeper and gcc-config is installed. Am using postfix (only mailthing i have install other then tb) and using vixie-cron.

Got some of the other things cleaned up.

The nvidia thing is a shitty fix to my mm-sources not using the nonmasked nvidia driver in portage but with the .run script from their site. Think theres a fix to it somewhere but haven't got the time to fix it (see mummy i can make a good excuse

).

Mige89 · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 32

the script told me that i didnt need /var/log/apache2. but without the files apache didnt start.
i fixed it now, but maybe the script shall leave /var/log/apache2 alone?

stahlsau · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:28 am Post subject:

yes, the gcc-config-files are listed here too. I decided to burn them to see if it does harm, and well, it does ;-)

But fortunely (<=is this right?) nothing what the gcc-binaries couldn´t fix.
Would be nice if you could remove these directories from your script or s/t ;-)

ecatmur · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:42 pm Post subject:

OK... apache2 is now somewhat handled (I haven't got it installed so I'm working from the build).

Scrollkeeper and gcc-config - well, I don't have those listed but whatever, it can't hurt to add them in.

Only other thing is that cron.pid; hmm...
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ecatmur · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

About that cron.pid: it ought to get automagically picked up. Is vixie-cron in /var/lib/init.d/started/ and does sed ':a;/\\$/N;s/\\\n//;ta;s/^.*start-stop-daemon.*$\<-p\|--pidfile\>\|\<-m\|--make-pidfile\>$\s*$\/\S\+$.*$/\2/;tb;s/^.*pidfile=$\/\S\+$.*$/\1/;tb;d;:b;s/\s\+/\n/g' /var/lib/init.d/started/*
give you cron.pid?
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Jarhead · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 474

I like what I see... However, reading through the previous 2 pages of this post, I didn't catch how to remove the cruft. Is that something I remove manually, or is there a way to make the script do it?
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BlindSpy · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 263

I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe they could each get a number and you could give it intervules like ./cruft -d 1-5,20-40,45-50 and it would delete all those?

BlindSpy · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 263

Great script! i cleaned out .4 gig by just running it. I'm pretty new to programming in C for linux but I may try to write something to delete them automatically... May be a while before I get that kinda still though. Here's all the files i kept:

djm · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 3:02 pm Post subject:

What I do is (more or less):

image · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

is it possible to exclude /var/vpopmail and /var/qmail if the ebuilds are installed?

BlindSpy · Apprentice Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 263

stahlsau · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:59 am Post subject:

that´s the way i tried, but bash said s/t like argument too long...so i had to split the cruft-list into a few parts - well, was a lot of stuff to burn ;-)

gnac · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject:

I just downloaded the latest version of this script, but I'm not sure if I fully understand its operation.

When I run it I get the portagefiles(15M) and allfiles(8M) in /tmp. But reading the files I find numerous files that I would assume are needed system files, and if not, many that I'm sure I do not want to delete:

portagefile sample:

ecatmur · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:41 am Post subject:

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ecatmur · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:47 am Post subject: