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 the documentation at either
/usr/share/doc/unburden-home-dir/html/ on debianoid installations,
at https://unburden-home-dir.readthedocs.io/ online, or in the docs/
directory in the source tar ball for an explanation of these files.
corekeeper, autotrash(1), agedu(1), bleachbit(1), mundus, computer-janitor(1), rmlint(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 abe@deuxchevaux.org.
Unburden Home Dir is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or any later version at your option.