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Analyzed 12 months ago
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
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instead of moved.
This is helpful for NFS homes, systems with homes on small flash disks or SSDs but with a lot of RAM, and for not cluttering backups of /home/ with cache files. [Less]