Thread: Gregg's Nearly Interminable Adventures in Linux Land
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Old 04-19-2015, 08:19 PM   #384
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell View Post
Ha ha, eschwartz! Bleachbit is a trip! I got rid of the Home folder and it freed up 16 GB. (Which is like half of my hard drive.) And now the computer is fast again! Which is perfect--I'll keep it as a backup as it has all my programs and favorites. (I had been planning on pitching it.) Thanks.

P.S. I chose the "shredding" option. And that means that 16 GB is available for use now, right?

PSS. What would have happened had I chose the "overwrite" option?

Thanks!
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/doc...iles-wipe-disk

Also, funny coincidence -- my HDD is ~37 GB too.
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