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Is there general Linux periodic maintenance that I should be doing?

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Mar 15, 20263698 views
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On Windows, I used to check every so often for disk fragmentation, delete large files, defragment, check through the registry for startup entries/process hogs, etc etc. While generally people say that Linux doesn't need defragmentation due to the difference in storage, are there other/similar maint…

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By large files I assume you mean logfiles that tend to grow. Linux mitigates this by rotating the logs using logrotate. Software updates, like Muhammad pointed, are generally optional (updating for the sake of updating only isn't good, because you'r…

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