how to clean your hard drive in linux mint
how to clean your hard drive in linux mint
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Remove the power source, press the power button for 10 seconds, open the computer, remove the hard drive, dust it off and put it back. Has nothing to do with the OS. You might want to clean the fan too, those things always accumulate lots of dust.
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That made me smile ... :)
I'm assuming the OP meant at the OS / SW level, but we'd really like more info first. |
LOL...there's no need to "clean" your hard drive. You can delete temporary files from within your browser. There's really nothing else you need to "clean".
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@ mennohellinga: You have me in stitches with that answer. I nearly laughed my head off reading that. So cool - made my evening! Thank you!
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just remember that after you remove the dust that
you DO NOT put it in the dish washer to "clean" now in some cases you CAN put a keyboard in the dish washer - but allow for 6 weeks to dry however what do you mean by "clean" a drive there is DBAN ( google it) there is "shred" - most os's have this built in there is " dd" - also built in I like the dd option to make a very LARGE random file |
not sure what you mean by clean. do you mean securely erase or get just rid of tmp and cache files ect...?
if it was along the lines of what JOHN VV was suggesting then dd is the tool to erase securely but it takes forever on a whole drive. it can also do individual files. use like (i.e "dd if=/dev/random of=drive_file_to be erased"). i use bleach bit to clean and wipe things like caches and all those temp type of files. bleachbit is automatic and seems to do a good job not sure how secure the wipe is but i don't care for the purpose i use it for. really all this is probably irrelevent as others said tho. there is also a wipe command in terminal but like dd it takes forever and the default is like 18 time or something and really is only neccessary if your selling cpu and want to securely wipe a drive or certain files that you don't want the person that buys it to recover. |
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net work
why is it every time i go into linux i always get the pop up on network whats going on with linux?????????
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that dose not make any sense |
@ John VV
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We used to have to ask people who spilled tea/coffee on their keyboards, "Do you take sugar?" If they did, the keyboard was junk. Sugar is carbon which conducts electricity. A cheapo keyboard costs about £6.00. Get a new one! Play Bonny! :hattip: |
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I spose if you buy those ultra-cheap 'have the liespan of a gnat' keyboards just getting a new one might seem like a better idea than if you buy good keyboards. |
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Play Bonny! :hattip: |
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