System upkeep

ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
Are there any programs like Ccleaner and System Mechanic that maintain and clean Ubuntu Linux or is this done solely thru Terminal?
I have noticed Google Desktop is finding - at least urls of previous sites I have visited.
Or is Linux set up in such away that this is unnecessary - as I have heard about defragmenting?

Comments

  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    If you are on Linux it us unnecessary indeed. Don't worry about it, less up keep than Windows :D
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    jared wrote:
    If you are on Linux it us unnecessary indeed. Don't worry about it, less up keep than Windows :D
    :cool2: Thanks!
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2007
    To clean temp files/cache the only way I know is through the console.e.

    Also modern file systems don't need to be defragmented. (Riser Fs places files to avoid fragmentation so does apples hfs+)

    However minor fragmentation can still occur if your experiencing this copying the files and deleting the originals will solve the problem.
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Thanks Grayfox good to know- it seems you know Linux well:cool:
    Just wondering if defrag is necessary in Vista?

    When copying you will not be duplicating the fragmentation ?
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    If you're using ext2 or ext3 filesystems you still need to defragment every now and then. ReiserFS users don't need to defragment due to how the filesystem is designed. There's a simple braindead defrag script available here that will do the trick. Be sure to RTFM.

    Vista uses NTFS which needs to be defrag'd regularly.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2007
    Thelemech wrote:
    Thanks Grayfox good to know- it seems you know Linux well:cool:
    Just wondering if defrag is necessary in Vista?

    When copying you will not be duplicating the fragmentation ?

    Riser FS is intelligent enough to know where good spots to put the files on your hard-drive are, apples hfs+ does this as well.

    Vista still needs defrag's even winfs in the beta's still needed to be defraged.

    Personally I think Microsoft should just switch to riser fs 4 or ZFS, Sun's ZFS is a little bit better then even riserfs from what ive read. (Even apple seems to know this, the WWDC beta for Mac Os X 10.5 can read and write to ZFS.... but you can't boot from it)
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