How Do You Perform Disk Clean Up and Defragment

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:38:50 -0000, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Johnny Rosenberg
>> <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/2/27 Proud Parent <mymagma at gmail.com>:
>>>> HOW DO YOU CLEAN THE DISC OF TRASH AND DE FRFRAGMENT THE DISC?
>>>> THANKS
>>>> PROUD PARENT
>>>
>>> OK, I see that you got some angry and some arrogant replies. The
>>> information is there, but maybe it could be said somewhat nicer, at
>>> least that is what I am going to try now:
>>>
>>> First, which is not an answer to you question, typing capitals are
>>> considered yelling or shouting on most mail lists, so it would be nice
>>> if you stopped doing that.
>>>
>>> I run Ubuntu 9.10 in Swedish so I am not sure about the English words
>>> in menues and so on, but in [System → Administration] (or something
>>> like that) there is an icon looking like a broom. Double click it. It
>>> will ask for your password.
>>>
>>> Disk fragmentation is unlikely to happen on an Ubuntu (or other non
>>> Windows/DOS) system, at least if your file system is not NTFS or FAT
>>> of some kind. I think there are defragmentation tools out there
>>> somewhere, but you will probably never need it.
>>>
>>> I found more information about this here:
>>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/defrag-on-linux-331862/
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> And, in the future, remember that Caps Lock thing. People tend to give
>>> you arrogant replies when you use upper case letters only. :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Yes, we have no bananas but what the heck is that thing that happens
>> every 30 reboots? What is it doing? What is it called. I guess it is
>> some sort of make sure the file system is intact thingy but really
>> from a users perspective it is not much different that defragging that
>> you are all putting down so much and takes almost as long as it used
>> to on my XP machine (granted I had a HD that was much much smaller
>> back then). Still, even though what it is doing is not the same the
>> end result is. It wastes my time when I really just want to boot up
>> and use the computer. I trust the devs that it is needed but it is
>> still just like defragging from a time standpoint.
>>
> Just press Escape it will halt and wait for next time.
>
>> PS don't give newbies such a hard time. Ubuntu is supposed to be nice
>> and this list is part of that. Being mean will just make people wish
>> they were back on MS.
>>
> +1
>
>
I think Steve should learn to snip a little.

~SpaceGhost

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