---
name: "kleandisk"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kleandisk"
version: "2.1-beta2-1"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kleandisk"
---

# kleandisk(1)

a file cleanup and backup tool for KDE

## NAME

kleandisk - a file cleanup and backup tool for KDE

## SYNOPSIS

**kleandisk** \[ *generic-options* \]\
 **kleandisk -e**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **kleandisk** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**Kleandisk** searches your system and gives a list of files which can be deleted, backed up or archived.  Kleandisk itself can also be used as a backup and archiving tool.

Files are selected for cleaning, backup and archiving according to user-defined file groups, making Kleandisk easy to extend and automate. Automatic scheduled operations are supported.

Kleandisk can wrap /usr/bin/install to provide easy uninstallation of files installed using 'make install'.  To use this feature, python will need to be present on your system.

## OPTIONS

Below are the kleandisk-specific options. For a full summary of options, run *kleandisk --help*.

- **-e**

  Tells Kleandisk that you have finished 'make install'.\
   If you are wrapping /usr/bin/install as described above, you must run *kleandisk -e* after 'make install' has finished; this will perform necessary tidying up.

## SEE ALSO

The original documentation from the program author is available in */usr/share/doc/kleandisk/*.

## AUTHOR

Kleandisk was written by Arjan Buursink \<buursink@casema.net\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<benb@acm.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).