{"id":916,"date":"2024-06-09T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T12:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2024-06-09T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T11:44:15","slug":"rmlint-optimize-your-disk-space-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/rmlint-optimize-your-disk-space-on-linux","title":{"rendered":"Rmlint: Optimize your disk space on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy how quickly my hard drive fills up, and I find it quite tedious to clean it up. That&#8217;s when I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/rmlint.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/\" title=\"\">rmlint<\/a>, which has been really helpful. This open-source tool, available on most Linux distributions, allows you to optimize disk space quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Duplicate files &amp; directories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nonstripped Binaries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Broken symlinks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Empty files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recursive empty directories.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Files with broken user or group id.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>RMLint has several strong points to highlight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Extremely fast!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paranoia mode: For those (like me) who don&#8217;t have complete trust in the checks\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiple output formats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Search for files only newer than a certain modification date (mtime).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many ways to manage duplicates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caching and replayability features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/139999878?h=6a21ef858d\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmlint.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/\" title=\"\">https:\/\/rmlint.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s crazy how quickly my hard drive fills up, and I find it quite tedious to clean it up. That&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}