It’s crazy how quickly my hard drive fills up, and I find it quite tedious to clean it up. That’s when I came across rmlint, which has been really helpful. This open-source tool, available on most Linux distributions, allows you to optimize disk space quickly.
Rmlint has the advantage of being fast when scanning disks to identify all files unnecessarily occupying storage space and offers to remove them. Rmlint is capable of:
- Duplicate files & directories.
- Nonstripped Binaries
- Broken symlinks.
- Empty files.
- Recursive empty directories.
- Files with broken user or group id.
RMLint has several strong points to highlight:
- Extremely fast!
- Paranoia mode: For those (like me) who don’t have complete trust in the checks…
- Multiple output formats.
- Search for files only newer than a certain modification date (mtime).
- Many ways to manage duplicates.
- Caching and replayability features.
For those who don’t like command lines (why use Linux then?), it also has an optional graphical user interface, making it even more accessible and easy to use for users of all levels.
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