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How to clean up unnecessary files

rated 0 times [ 48] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 127477 / 2 Years ago, thu, september 29, 2022, 5:43:33

Please suggest me any particular unnecessary file that I can clean to back everything to normal condition(temporarily). (i.e. any log or archieve or anything ). My var/log has only 40MB and Home directory has 3GB of space(so I believe that's not a problem). Other than that what I can clean up to make space.

[user@host]$ df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/vg_inamivm-lv_root

                       18G   17G     0 100% /

tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm

/dev/sda1             485M   71M  389M  16% /boot

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answered 2 Years ago rillrage · Accepted Answer

To clean some packages laying around, run the following:

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoclean

If you are in search for a more in depth cleaning, use the Ubuntu Tweak Utility.

Install

The Ubuntu Tweak Stable PPA by Ding Zhou, support Ubuntu 7.10 till 14.04.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Usage

Click the janitor tab, select what you want to scan, check what you want to delete, and then press the clean button to cleanse your system.

ubuntu-tweak-janitor