How to clean up disk space on Linux

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Sep 10, 2013

If you have an aged Linux system, chances are that you have a lot of disk space wasted due to things like application-specific caches (e.g., browser caches), system caches (e.g., apt cache), unnecessary locale files or other temporary files. This tutorial describes how to clean up disk space on Linux by using BleachBit.

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