Unburdens home directories from caches and trashes
unburden-home-dir [ -n | -u | -f filter ]
unburden-home-dir ( -h | --help | --version )
unburden-home-dir unburdens the home directory from files and directory which cause high I/O or disk usage but are neither important if they are lost, e.g. caches or trash directory.
When being run it moves the files and directories given in the configuration file to a location outside the home directory, e.g. /tmp or /scratch, and puts appropriate symbolic links in the home directory instead.
-b
use the given string as basename instead of "unburden-home-dir".
-c
read an additional configuration file.
-C
read only the given configuration file
-f
just unburden those directory matched by the given filter (a perl regular expression) – it matches the already unburdened directories if used together with -u.
-F
Do not check for files in use with lsof before (re)moving files.
-l
read an additional list file
-L
read only the given list file
-n
dry run (show what would be done)
-u
undo (reverse the functionality and put stuff back into the home directory)
-h, --help
show this help
--version
show the program's version
Example configuration files can be found at /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/examples on Debian-based systems and in the etc/ directory of the source tar ball.
/etc/unburden-home-dir, /etc/unburden-home-dir.list, ~/.unburden-home-dir, ~/.unburden-home-dir.list, ~/.config/unburden-home-dir/config, ~/.config/unburden-home-dir/list, /etc/default/unburden-home-dir, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95unburden-home-dir
Read /usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/README on debianoid installations or README in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.
corekeeper (http://packages.debian.org/sid/corekeeper), autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1). mundus (http://www.mundusproject.org/). computer-janitor(1).
Of, course, du(1) can help you to find potential files or directories to handle by unburden-home-dir, but there are quite some du(1)-like tools out there which are way more comfortable, e.g. ncdu(1) (text-mode), baobab(1) (GNOME), filelight(1) (KDE), xdiskusage(1) (X tool calling du(1) itself), or xdu(1) (X tool reading du(1) output from STDIN).
Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.