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Originally Posted by GeraldKo View Post
Thanks. I didn't know about those, and I like to keep a "clean machine." I just ran those, they got rid of some stuff, and at least I can say nothing is broken so far!

Is there anything similar for

(a) generally maintaining system happiness (like RegClean on WinXP/Win2000)?

(b) defragmenting the drive? (I think it's when I run fsck on the SD card on which I have a system, but from a Device Memory boot, it tells me something like "0.7% non-contiguous")

(c) Is there a way to run something like fsck on the Device Memory? What I do for the SD card (on which I have the system I usually run) is enter, as root,

fsck -fy /dev/mmcblk0p2

-- but I do this when I've booted from the Device Memory, not from the SD card. So, is there an equivalent way to keep the Device Memory happy?
Your (a & b) are Windows issues that don't really exist in a Linux environment. Applications manage their own configurations as hidden text files in /home/user which is the working directory when you start a terminal session. If you delete one of these files the application will normally create a new one with default values. There is no "fsck" on the tablet and I'm not aware of an alternative. Since storage is solid state the function performed by fsck may not be required.
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