Tag Archives: cleanup

Purge previously uninstalled packages in debian

Recently I ordered a server with Debian etch. Unfor­tu­nately dur­ing test­ing I noticed that startx was on the sys­tem, along with a whole slew of other junk that I don’t gen­er­ally want on a fresh server. I wanted to remove all of the cruft but I didn’t have the exact package list.

Find and delete old files in linux redux

After some lovely feed­back from Sotiris Tsim­bo­nis on my last post Find and delete old files in linux I have a bet­ter (faster) way to delete files.

Find and delete old files in linux

I have a few of those direc­to­ries that files tend to pile up in. I don’t need the files but I also don’t take the time to delete them. Prun­ing these old files is a good thing to keep your used disk space under con­trol as well as your san­ity. Find is a great tool