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Free up disk space on Ubuntu - clean log, cache, archive packages/apt archives, orphaned packages, old kernel and remove the trash
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#!/bin/sh | |
#Check the Drive Space Used by Cached Files | |
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives | |
#Clean all the log file | |
#for logs in `find /var/log -type f`; do > $logs; done | |
logs=`find /var/log -type f` | |
for i in $logs | |
do | |
> $i | |
done | |
#Getting rid of partial packages | |
apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean | |
apt-get remove --purge -y software-properties-common | |
#Getting rid of no longer required packages | |
apt-get autoremove -y | |
#Getting rid of orphaned packages | |
deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove --purge | |
#Free up space by clean out the cached packages | |
apt-get clean | |
# Remove the Trash | |
rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/** | |
rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/** | |
# Remove Man | |
rm -rf /usr/share/man/?? | |
rm -rf /usr/share/man/??_* | |
#Delete all .gz and rotated file | |
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.gz$" | xargs rm -Rf | |
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.[0-9]$" | xargs rm -Rf | |
#Cleaning the old kernels | |
dpkg-query -l|grep linux-im* | |
#dpkg-query -l |grep linux-im*|awk '{print $2}' | |
apt-get purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | head -n -1) --assume-yes | |
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f3`-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f4` | |
#Cleaning is completed | |
echo "Cleaning is completed" |
Cool! Thx!
Thanks a lot
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Skip the step
apt-get remove --purge -y software-properties-common
Otherwise some handy steps and commands for tidying out excessive logs thanks !