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Cleanup disk space in Ubuntu using Bleachbit

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cleanup It’s not just windows that bloats up over a period of time, but also linux (Ubuntu). There are countless utilities for disk cleanup in Windows but I never ventured into finding one for Ubuntu. However, when my free disk space was reducing, I had to look for a disk cleanup utility and I found one which was very basic but did the job flawlessly.

BleachBit is a disk cleanup tool for Linux (ubuntu) and is pretty handy.

Home Page

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

Description

BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk. Rid your system of old clutter including cache, Internet history, localizations, temporary files, cookies, and broken shortcuts. Designed for Linux systems, it wipes clean Adobe Reader, Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, Second Live viewer, VIM, XChat, and more.

Download

Depending on your Linux distro you can download appropriate BleachBit version from here.

Installation and Usage

1. As I use Ubuntu, I downloaded the deb package of BleachBit and installed it by double clicking the downloaded deb.

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2. Once installed you can start BleachBit by going to Applications > System Tools > BleachBit.

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3. Select the files that you want to remove and use BleachBit to cleanup your Ubuntu drive.

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You can use it once in a while to cleanup your Ubuntu drive.

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This entry was posted by Vivek on February 5, 2009 at 5:24 pm, and is filed under Technology, Ubuntu. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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Comments (6)

#1 written by Andrew Ziem
about 1 year ago

Thank you for the nice review and for the link! Â Best wishes for your web site.
#2 written by Vivek
about 1 year ago

Thanks Andrew for visiting and dropping a comment. Off all thanks for creating this wonderful tool.
#3 written by Nithin
about 11 months ago

My system fails to boot to the Graphical User Interface after cleaitng with bleachbit.
Some files missing in my var directory.
#4 written by SupermanIsDeady
about 6 months ago

thank you…
this is what i search from the beggining
#5 written by cash gold
about 1 month ago

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#6 written by CD Printing
about 3 weeks ago

Thank you for sharing the download link of Bleachbit. This will definitely help cleaning my Ubuntu.