Any ideas on a filesystem cleaner/janitor?

I've got some limited harddrive space, and I'd like a tool to help me clean out old files. Mainly browser caches, package caches, unneeded packages, etc. Any ideas?
I'd also appreciate some ideas on what else I can do to trim down the used space.
Thanks,

I'd go for a much more manual but computer assisted approach: Just find out which directories are taking the most space and clean them up. This prevents you from spending hours and hours reviewing and deleting tons of files only to discover you cleared up about 250 KB of space.
Look at directory usage in your home directory:
du -sh ~/*
Repeat the "du" command inside directories until you find some big stuff you want to delete.
Look at config file directory usage:
du -sh ~/.??*
This will give you an idea if you need to empty your trash can or your Firefox cache or your thumbnail cache...
Use pacman to delete old unused package files:
pacman -Sc
I think that's pretty much all you as a user is responsible for. Pretty much every other file should be handled by pacman.
I cleaned up my drives relatively recently. I also did things like use Handbrake to resize 4 GB video files to 800 MB video files.
EDIT: More ideas: Pictures can take a ton of space. Instead of having thousands of pictures that are multiple times bigger than your monitor you can bulk resize them using ImageMagick. Delete video / music files that you can easily access again (like from YouTube).
Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-02-26 16:22:42)

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