Jenkins Is there any way to cleanup Jenkins workspace

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How can I cleanup the workspace in Jenkins  I am using AccuRev as version control tool   I created freestyle projects in Jenkins

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You can run the below script in the Manage Jenkins   Scripts Console for deleting the workspaces of all the jobs at one shot  We did this to clean up space on the file system   import hudson model      For each project for item in Hudson instance items         check that job is not building   if  item isBuilding          println  Wiping out workspace of job   item name      item doDoWipeOutWorkspace         else       println  Skipping job   item name    currently building

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There is an option to do it  Configure -  Post-build Actions  The option comes by default at least in Jenkins version 2 236

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Workspace Cleanup Plugin  In Jenkins file add  cleanWs     This will delete the workspace after the build is complete

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Beside above solutions  there is a more  COMMON  way - directly delete the largest space consumer from Linux machine  You can follow the below steps    Login to Jenkins machine  Putty   cd to the Jenkins installation path      Using ls -lart to list out hidden folder also  normally jenkin   installation is placed in  jenkins  folder   xxxxx     ls -lart  drwxrwxr-x 12 xxxx  4096 Feb  8 02 08  jenkins      list out the folders spaces      Use df -h to show Disk space in high level      du -sh      to list out total memory for each subfolder in current   path       du -a  etc    sort -n -r   head -n 10 will list top 10 directories   eating disk space in  etc     Delete old build or other large size folder      Normally   job  folder or   workspace  folder can be the largest   folder  Please go inside and delete base on you need  DO NOT delete entire folder        rm -rf theFolderToDelete

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There is a way to cleanup workspace in Jenkins  You can clean up the workspace before build or after build    First  install Workspace Cleanup Plugin   To clean up the workspace before build  Under Build Environment  check the box that says Delete workspace before build starts   To clean up the workspace after the build  Under the heading Post-build Actions select Delete workspace when build is done from the Add Post-build Actions drop down menu

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You will need to install this plugin before the options mentioned above will appear  Workspace Cleanup Plugin  This plugin add the check box to all job configs to allow you to delete the whole workspace before any steps  inc source control  are run  This is useful to make sure you always start from a known point to guarantee how you build will run

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If you want to manually clean it up  for me with my version of jenkins  didn t appear to need an extra plugin installed  but who knows   there is a  workspace  link on the left column  click on your project  then on  workspace   then a  Wipe out current workspace  link appears beneath it on the left hand side column

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Assuming the question is about cleaning the workspace of the current job  you can run   test -n   WORKSPACE   amp  amp  rm -rf   WORKSPACE

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If you want to just remove one dir  or file  you can use Groovy and Manage Jenkins   Scripts Console run a script which removes it   For example  you can look at the files with   dh   new File    bitnami jenkins jenkins home workspace jobname folder   dh eachFile     println it      And then  when you have the folder you want to delete in dh  you could simply append the next code   dh deleteDir     And it will be deleted   Note  The path shown in the example is for a Bitnami Jenkins installation  yours could be different

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not allowed to comment  therefore   The answer from Upen works just fine  but not if you have Jenkins Pipeline Jobs mixed with Freestyle Jobs  There is no such Method as DoWipeWorkspace on Pipeline Jobs   So I modified the Script in order to skip those   import hudson model   import org jenkinsci plugins workflow job WorkflowJob     For each project for item in Hudson instance items         check that job is not building   if  item isBuilding    amp  amp    item instanceof WorkflowJob           println  Wiping out workspace of job   item name      item doDoWipeOutWorkspace         else       println  Skipping job   item name    currently building           you could also filter by Job Names if required  item getDisplayName   toLowerCase   contains  release

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IMPORTANT  It is safe to remove the workspace for a given Jenkins job as long as the job is not currently running   NOTE  I am assuming your  JENKINS HOME is set to the default   var jenkins home   Clean up one workspace  rm -rf  var jenkins home workspaces  lt workspace gt   Clean up all workspaces  rm -rf  var jenkins home workspaces    Clean up all workspaces with a few exceptions  This one uses grep to create a whitelist   ls  var jenkins home workspace        grep -v -E   job-to-skip another-job-to-skip          xargs -I    rm -rf  var jenkins home workspace      Clean up 10 largest workspaces  This one uses du and sort to list workspaces in order of largest to smallest  Then  it uses head to grab the first 10   du -d 1  var jenkins home workspace       sort -n -r       head -n 10       xargs -I    rm -rf  var jenkins home workspace

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