How to Install and Uninstall unburden-home-dir Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: July 04,2024

1. Install "unburden-home-dir" package

Learn how to install unburden-home-dir on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                unburden-home-dir
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "unburden-home-dir" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall unburden-home-dir on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                unburden-home-dir
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the unburden-home-dir package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: unburden-home-dir
Priority: extra
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 97
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Axel Beckert
Architecture: all
Version: 0.3.3
Depends: libconfig-file-perl, libfile-basedir-perl, libfile-rsync-perl, libfile-touch-perl, libfile-which-perl, perl
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2)
Recommends: lsof, x11-common
Suggests: agedu, autotrash, bleachbit, corekeeper, eatmydata, fslint, ncdu | baobab | filelight | xdiskusage | xdu, tmpreaper
Filename: pool/universe/u/unburden-home-dir/unburden-home-dir_0.3.3_all.deb
Size: 23420
MD5sum: f7e300a5476d3b35034b598d408aea45
SHA1: e4bf11be44e3f573e54c51e9d915926985800323
SHA256: 58199a78bf011f47af515ecf6ba969095618cdb01075c0dc79099c44a2e07e89
Description-en: Remove or move cache files automatically from user's home
unburden-home-dir allows users to move cache files from browsers,
etc. off their home directory, i.e. on a local harddisk or tmpfs and
replace them with a symbolic link to the new location (e.g. on /tmp/
or /scratch/) upon login. Optionally the contents of the directories
and files can be removed instead of moved.
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This is helpful at least in the following cases:
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The idea-giving case are big workstation setups where $HOME is on NFS
and all those caches put an unnecessary burden (hence the name) on
the file server since caching over NFS doesn't have the best
performance and may clog the NFS server, too.
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A similar case, but with different purpose is reducing I/O on mobile
devices like laptops or netbooks to extend the battery life: Moving
browser caches etc. off the real disk into a tmpfs filesystem reduces
the amount of disk I/O which reduces the power consumption of the
disk.
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Another possible solution for saving non-crucial I/O is using the
package eatmydata to ignore a software's fsync calls.
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The other type of use cases for unburden-home-dir is to reduce disk
space usage, e.g. on devices with small disk space but a lot of RAM
as seen often on boxes with flash disks or early netbooks, especially
the EeePC, where configurations with 4GB disk space and 2GB RAM are
not seldom. In this case you want to move off as many cache files,
etc. as possible to some tmpfs filesystem, e.g. /tmp/.
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It may also help to reduce the amount of needed backup disk space by
keeping those files in places where they don't get backed up. In that
case it's an alternative to keeping the blacklist in your backup
software up-to-date.
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For some users it may also be helpful to stay under their quota.
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The package also contains an Xsession hook which calls this script on
X login for every user. But by default no files or directories are
configured to be moved elsewhere, so nothing will happen
automatically without configuration.
Description-md5: 31f83b33c0cc9d5b62f69c6366324515
Enhances: x11-common
Homepage: https://github.com/xtaran/unburden-home-dir
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu