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

[mhodak]

I am getting this error:

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# ./cruft 
./cruft: line 729: syntax error near unexpected token `&&'
./cruft: line 729: `    && [[ -f "$package" ]] \'

Am I doing something wrong?

[holmis]

I am getting this error:

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# ./cruft 
./cruft: line 729: syntax error near unexpected token `&&'
./cruft: line 729: `    && [[ -f "$package" ]] \'

Am I doing something wrong?

I get this too. Must be an err. Ohh,,, and i'm so bad at bash scripting.

[ecatmur]

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

[djm]

It keeps coming up with

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/etc/X11/Sessions/xfce4

This could be because I previsouly had xfce3 installed as well as xfce4 and then unmerged v3

Version 4 is definitely installed though, and is definitely needed (I deleted it just to check)

Any thoughts on that?

[ecatmur]

Well, I don't run Xfce so I'm happy to take your advice. Added.

[ecatmur]

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.)

[windzor]

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

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/etc/dnsdomainname~
/etc/env.d/90games
/etc/group~
/etc/hostname~
/etc/init.d/pppoe~
/etc/lilo.conf~
/etc/mail/aliases.db
/etc/make.conf~
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6~
/etc/modules.d/alsa~
/etc/nanorc
/etc/postfix/main.cf~
/etc/prelink.conf~
/etc/rc.conf~
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.5336
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.5336
/usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-c++
/usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++
/usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
/usr/bin/nvidia-installer
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/chrome.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content/overlays.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/cookie/content/overlays.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/global
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/global/content
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/global/content/overlays.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content/overlays.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content/overlays.rdf
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/components/compreg.dat
/usr/lib/MozillaThunderbird/components/xpti.dat
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5336
/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.5336
/usr/lib/python2.2
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/fchksum.so
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/missingos.so
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/client.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/core.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/delta.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/fs.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/ra.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/repos.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsvn/wc.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/client.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/core.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/delta.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/fs.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/ra.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/repos.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/util.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/svn/wc.pyo
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/NVIDIA_Changelog
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.DE
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/XF86Config.sample
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/gl.h
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glext.h
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glx.h
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glxtokens.h
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-gentoo.el
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/Apefoo2.kastyle
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-close-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-close-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-close-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-empty.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-maximize-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-maximize-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-maximize-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-minimize-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-minimize-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/button-minimize-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/closebutton-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/grip-left-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/grip-right-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/handlebar-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/handlebar-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/leftedge-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/leftedge-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/rightedge-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/rightedge-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/titlebar-focus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Apefoo2/titlebar-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/.xvpics
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/.xvpics/button-unfocus2.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/.xvpics/maxbutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/.xvpics/menubutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/Aqua.jpg
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/Aqua.kastyle
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/background.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/button-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/button-unfocus2.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/closebutton-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/closebutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/dockappholder.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/grip.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/handlebar.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/leftedge.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/maxbutton-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/maxbutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/menubutton-pressed.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/menubutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/menutitle.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/rightedge.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/shadebutton-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/shadebutton.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/shadebutton2-unfocus.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/shadebutton2.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/titlebar.png
/usr/share/kahakai/styles/Aqua/unfocusedtitlebar.png
/usr/share/man/man1/xsetbg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/lilo.conf.5
/usr/share/man/man8/lilo.8
/usr/share/man/man8/mkrescue.8
/var/lib/nvidia
/var/lib/nvidia/100
/var/lib/nvidia/101
/var/lib/nvidia/102
/var/lib/nvidia/103
/var/lib/nvidia/104
/var/lib/nvidia/105
/var/lib/nvidia/106
/var/lib/nvidia/log
/var/lib/scrollkeeper
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/C
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/am
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/az
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/be
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/ca
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/cs
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/da
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/de
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/el
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/es
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/fr
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/hu
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/it
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/ja
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/kn
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/ko
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/nl
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/no
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/pl
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/pt_BR
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/ro
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/ru
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/sk
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/sl
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/sr
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/sr@Latn
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/sv
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/tr
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/uk
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/vi
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/zh_CN
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/zh_TW
/var/run/cron.pid
/var/run/ppp0.pid
/var/run/pppd.tdb
/var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid
/var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.pppd
/var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.pppoe
/var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.start 

[ecatmur]

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?

[ecatmur]

/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

[windzor]

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]

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]

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]

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...

[ecatmur]

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?

[Jarhead]

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?

[BlindSpy]

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]

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:

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/bin/ipodmount <=mine
/bin/ipodumount <=mine
/etc/apache2/extramodules
/etc/apache2/lib
/etc/apache2/logs
/etc/apache2/modules
/etc/bootsplash/default
/etc/bootsplash/gentoo/images/.directory
/etc/env.d/90games
/etc/fonts/Fontmap
/etc/foomatic/cups
/etc/ftpusers
/etc/http <=mine
/etc/http/forum <=mine
/etc/http/index.php <=mine
/etc/http/phpmyadmin <=mine
/etc/skel/.pypanelrc <=mine
/etc/skel/.xinitrc <=mine
/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
/usr/X11R6/include/GL/glxATI.h
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.cache-1
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.dir
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ukr/Fontmap
/usr/X11R6/lib/libfglrx_gamma.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libfglrx_gamma.so.1
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/allinonegest.jar
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/preferential.jar
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/chrome/tabextensions.jar
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/install.log
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/dictionary.png
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/dictionary.src
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/googleLinux.gif
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/googleLinux.src
/usr/lib/ccache
/usr/lib/ccache/bin
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/c++
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/cc
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/g++
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/gcc
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-c++
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
/usr/lib/libdb-1.so
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/fchksum.so
/usr/libexec/usermin/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/at/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/at/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/changepass/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/chfn/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/commands/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/cron/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/cron/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/cshrc/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/cshrc/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/fetchmail/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/file/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/forward/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/gnupg/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/htaccess/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/language/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/language/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/mailbox/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/mailbox/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/man/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/man/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/miniserv.conf
/usr/libexec/usermin/miniserv.users
/usr/libexec/usermin/mysql/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/perl-path
/usr/libexec/usermin/plan/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/plan/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/postgresql/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/proc/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/proc/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/procmail/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/procmail/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/quota/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/quota/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/shell/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/shell/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/spam/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/ssh/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/ssh/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/start
/usr/libexec/usermin/stop
/usr/libexec/usermin/telnet/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/theme/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/theme/config
/usr/libexec/usermin/tunnel/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/uninstall.sh
/usr/libexec/usermin/updown/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/usermount/admin.acl
/usr/libexec/usermin/var-path
/usr/libexec/usermin/webmin.acl
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-1024x768
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-1280x1024
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-1600x1200
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-800x600
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-gentoo-1024x768
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-gentoo-1280x1024
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-gentoo-1600x1200
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-gentoo-800x600
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.0-1024x768
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.0-1280x1024

/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.0-1600x1200
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.0-800x600
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.1-1024x768
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.1-1280x1024
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.1-1600x1200
/usr/share/bootsplash/initrd-livecd-2004.1-800x600
/usr/share/vsftpd
/usr/share/vsftpd/empty
/var/usermin
/var/usermin/miniserv.error
/var/usermin/miniserv.log
/var/usermin/miniserv.pid
/var/usermin/sessiondb.dir
/var/usermin/sessiondb.pag

I do have apache, bootsplash, foomatic, vsftpd, firefox, and usermin installed so i dont know if I need these things for them to work or if they just need to be added but the apache stuff im sure needs to stay.

[djm]

What I do is (more or less):

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~/cruft > ~/.cruft
cat ~/.cruft
vim ~.cruft (remove anything you want to keep at this point)
rm -r `cat ~/.cruft`

You could always make a script to do this, and use rm -ir so that it asks you before moving each file

[image]

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

[BlindSpy]

What I do is (more or less):

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~/cruft > ~/.cruft
cat ~/.cruft
vim ~.cruft (remove anything you want to keep at this point)
rm -r `cat ~/.cruft`

You could always make a script to do this, and use rm -ir so that it asks you before moving each file

I'm gunna have to look into that - that looks like a good idea! thanks a lot metal

[stahlsau]

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]

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:

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bash # more /tmp/portagefiles
/
/bin
/bin/[
/bin/arch
/bin/awk
/bin/basename
/bin/bash
/bin/bunzip2
/bin/bzcat
/bin/bzcmp
/bin/bzdiff
/bin/bzegrep
/bin/bzfgrep
/bin/bzgrep
/bin/bzip2
/bin/bzip2recover
/bin/bzless
/bin/bzmore
/bin/cat
/bin/chattr
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chmod
/bin/chown
--More--(0%)

root@valhalla dwh # more /tmp/allfiles
/
/bin
/bin/[
/bin/arch
/bin/awk
/bin/basename
/bin/bash
/bin/bunzip2
/bin/bzcat
/bin/bzcmp
/bin/bzdiff
/bin/bzegrep
/bin/bzfgrep
/bin/bzgrep
/bin/bzip2
/bin/bzip2recover
/bin/bzless
/bin/bzmore
/bin/cat
/bin/chattr
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chmod
/bin/chown
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There are many more files that I know I do not want to delete, but I think these snippets give you the idea. I have posted zipped tarballs of these files to [EDIT:]I've deleted these files since I was mistaken in their purpose. Read Ecatmur's response below[/EDIT]. You can ignore any reference to files in the /share directories. They reference an old windows partition.


I was under the assumption that files listed in these two files were okay to delete, but looking at the output I assume that this assumption is incorrect.

Any thoughts?

[ecatmur]

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:

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/bin/ipodmount <=mine
/bin/ipodumount <=mine
/etc/apache2/extramodules
/etc/apache2/lib
/etc/apache2/logs
/etc/apache2/modules
/etc/bootsplash/default
/etc/bootsplash/gentoo/images/.directory
/etc/env.d/90games
/etc/fonts/Fontmap

Thanks. Do be aware you can move stuff to e.g. /usr/local/bin and it won't be picked up.
The latest version should get rid of most of the false positives you listed.

[ecatmur]

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

You could use:

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cat cruft-list | xargs rm

No way though am I going to give my script the ability to actually delete things. Not until version 0.4 at least anyway.

[ecatmur]

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

Of course; I'll add those rules. Thanks.