NAME¶
unburden-home-dir - unburdens home directories from caches and trashes
SYNOPSIS¶
unburden-home-dir [
-n |
-u |
-f filter ]
unburden-home-dir (
-h |
--help |
--version )
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
OPTIONS¶
- -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
EXAMPLES¶
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.
FILES¶
/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.
SEE ALSO¶
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).
AUTHOR¶
Unburden Home Dir is written and maintained by Axel Beckert <
beckert@phys.ethz.ch>
LICENSE¶
Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.
