Free up disk space on Ubuntu - clean log, cache, archive packages/apt archives, orphaned packages, old kernel and remove the trash

clean.sh

#!/bin/sh

#Check the Drive Space Used by Cached Files
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives

#Clean all the log file
#for logs in `find /var/log -type f`;  do > $logs; done

logs=`find /var/log -type f`
for i in $logs
do
> $i
done

#Getting rid of partial packages
apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean
apt-get remove --purge -y software-properties-common

#Getting rid of no longer required packages
apt-get autoremove -y


#Getting rid of orphaned packages
deborphan | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove --purge

#Free up space by clean out the cached packages
apt-get clean

# Remove the Trash
rm -rf /home/*/.local/share/Trash/*/**
rm -rf /root/.local/share/Trash/*/**

# Remove Man
rm -rf /usr/share/man/?? 
rm -rf /usr/share/man/??_*

#Delete all .gz and rotated file
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.gz$" | xargs rm -Rf
find /var/log -type f -regex ".*\.[0-9]$" | xargs rm -Rf

#Cleaning the old kernels
dpkg-query -l|grep linux-im*
#dpkg-query -l |grep linux-im*|awk '{print $2}'
apt-get purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | head -n -1) --assume-yes
apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f3`-`uname -r|cut -d'-' -f4`

#Cleaning is completed
echo "Cleaning is completed"

nice!

Ubuntu 18.04.4 works fine

Brilliant!!
Running with 18.04 LTS. I have apps like KiCAD and PyCharm on a 34GB root file-system. Down to 6GB left clean.sh found another 5GB to clean out to give me 11GB space left.
Thanks Iman!

It worked on Ubuntu 20.04. Nearly 20GB cleaned.

thumbs up

Great work @Iman!
Never thought the cleanup is super easy with this script.
All happened in a jiffy!

Skip the step
apt-get remove --purge -y software-properties-common
Otherwise some handy steps and commands for tidying out excessive logs thanks !

Cool! Thx!

Thanks a lot