How to clean up my desktop?

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Now, I see that my desktop running rhel 5.6 has run out of space. Now I need to clean it up. There must be some unintentional files adding up. What I would like to be able to do is list the files in descending size order in a clean way and see the culprits.

Less likely a solution, but you may have some duplicated files to remove. See Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks? for some tools. — manatwork, Nov 16 '11 at 12:10
The command find . | xargs ls -l | grep ^- | sort -k 5 -n helped to zero down some culprits.. — xyz, Nov 16 '11 at 12:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '11 at 11:52

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First thing to try is yum clean packages. Have a look at man yum for more cleanup options.

Other things you could do are mostly cleaning your own downloaded files, logs etc., to which there' no general rule.

answered Nov 16 '11 at 11:52

rozcietrzewiacz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 16 '11 at 15:11

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What I would do is to install and run baobap or KDirStat or the like. This would give you a visual graph of what is taking up space, together with file types. You can easily spot the problem and delete/uninstall things you don't want.

answered Nov 16 '11 at 15:11

phunehehe

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 17 '11 at 11:05

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I usually use ncdu for similar purposes.

answered Nov 17 '11 at 11:05

gelraen

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How to clean up my desktop?

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