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

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Blubbmon · Post by **Blubbmon** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:09 pm

mvila wrote:has this original script been abandoned?

Yes, but as I saw you have allready found the successor script of hepta_sean

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=254197

Nazadus · Post by **Nazadus** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:05 pm

I don't if you still care to have input from the crowd, but...
http://etherpunk.com/files/cruft_output.txt.bz2 (24k) is mine.
I currently run apache, postfix, and all the fun stuff and used the virtual domain howto (so I have tons of stuff) and I tend to do a worldly update about every 6 months.

This file is the result of the command:
./cruft > cruft_output.txt 2> cruft_output.txt
So all errors (and yes, I did see some weirdness) should be placed in here.

If you're intersted, here is my world file too:
http://etherpunk.com/files/world.bz2

I also ran regenworld a mere 15 minutes ago, so that's as recent as I can get.

I noticed that the cruft script wanted to nuke some of my conf files such as awstats.

Also, becuase I did the virtual howto (I think) it wanted to nuke my /etc/postfix/mysql-*.cf files -- which are *very* important for the virtual hosting.

I hope this helps.
If their is anything I can do to help, PM me.
Kenny

Nazadus · Post by **Nazadus** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 6:06 pm

doh! I wished I would have notcied that this had multiple pages...
ok... I'm never posting before a fiene hit again...

mope · Post by **mope** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:17 pm

ok, I'm a bit confused.

I went to etcatmur's site and looked at his scripts.

dep, cruft, cruft2 all seem to be recent.
what's the "official" word on whether they've been abandoned?

I started using findcruft, but an older version of cruft still works (0.0.12), whereas I read that this newest one doesn't (so I haven't tried it). EDIT: I tried .13 (most recent) and it works too on my box.

so are dep and cruft still to be used?
or replaced by unclepine and findcruft?

thanks everyone for the great script work.

CRV§ADER//KY · Post by **CRV§ADER//KY** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:55 pm

cruft tries to delete /etc/raidtab, I think it should be added to the ignore list.

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 3:17 pm

With the latest http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/cruft I get:

cruft: line 297: `motif-profile': not a valid identifier

Fixed with the following patch:

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293c293
< function motif-profile() {
---
> function motifprofile() {
502c502
< $(has_version '=x11-libs/openmotif-2.2*' && motif-profile openmotif-2.2)
---
> $(has_version '=x11-libs/openmotif-2.2*' && motifprofile openmotif-2.2)

GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

boudewijn · Post by **boudewijn** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:34 pm

this link is quite old, and currently dead.

Has anyone got a new version (as the one in the start-post is outdated) ?

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:53 pm

boudewijn wrote:this link is quite old, and currently dead.

Has anyone got a new version (as the one in the start-post is outdated) ?

I think the script is dead aswell...

boudewijn · Post by **boudewijn** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:20 pm

allright.

too bad, seemed to have a really nice purpose.

Do you know another way of preventing 'dead' files and stuff?

CRV§ADER//KY · Post by **CRV§ADER//KY** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 8:26 pm

actually, the script still does work quite well. It just will generate a few false positives, that's all (but the rule about not to ever delete a file that you don't know about is always valid, so it isn't really a big issue)

killerwhile · Post by **killerwhile** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:09 pm

Nice script, thank you.

You may just add a test to check if /root/.cruft is present, otherwise it die in a not really clean way.

grant123 · Post by **grant123** » Sat May 06, 2006 11:10 pm

Can anyone make an ebuild of this for the portage overlay?

Phlogiston · Post by **Phlogiston** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:42 am

The requested URL /~ed/main/my-bin/cruft was not found on this server.

Where can I get that script?

/edit: Ok I could download 1.0.4 version, is this the latest?

micmac · Post by **micmac** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:10 pm

I think by 1.0.4 you mean findcruft-1.0.4. cruft and findcruft are scripts by two different authors. ecatmur moved his original cruft script to svn. Link

Phlogiston · Post by **Phlogiston** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:16 pm

micmac wrote:I think by 1.0.4 you mean findcruft-1.0.4. cruft and findcruft are scripts by two different authors. ecatmur moved his original cruft script to svn. Link

Np findcruft works like a charm... But whats the shell command to delete files listed in a file?

micmac · Post by **micmac** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:24 am

Just "bend" it over xargs

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cat <file with cruft> | xargs rm -rf

Beware, it won't ask for acknowledgement

manouchk · Post by **manouchk** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:35 pm

I runned cruft for the fisrt time and :

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./cruft 
Developing list of potential false positives...
Collecting files managed by Portage...
./cruft: line 1170: /root/.cruft/portagefiles: No such file or directory
Collecting other files...
sed: can't read /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf: No such file or directory
Finding files on your filesystem...
./cruft: line 1182: /root/.cruft/allfiles: No such file or directory
Comparing file lists...

comm: /root/.cruft/allfiles: No such file or directory
tee: /root/.cruft/cruftfiles: No such file or directory

I made a mistake??

manouchk · Post by **manouchk** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:57 pm

answer => mkdir ~/.cruft