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Originally Posted by GoldenBoy72
I want to make sure my hard drive is defragmented (if it is possible) and that I don't have any unused temporary files that my ram is being used effectively etc. Any help on this is much appreciated.
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Linux filesystems do not need defragmenting (of course it's a little bit exaggerated but they don't need it in such way as windows fs needs), the only problems with fragmentation happen if your disk is becoming full, only then they tend to become fragmented.
Linux systems generally make full use of your ram memory. If you have more than 1GB of memory then swap is rarely used (though it's good to have it if you want the system to hibernate) or in some memory intensive operations it will get used. Memory is used the way that linux caches to the rest of free memory not used by your programs some most used files etc. generally free memory is a waisted memory. If any program needs more memory then that some cached files will be freed so no panic that you will run out of it.
If it goes about tmp file then you can set in YaST how often they should be cleaned or better yet use ram memory to use for the /tmp directory (you can set how much memory maximum it can use etc.) but generally it is no more than few megabytes except if you save some big files in /tmp for example when burning a cd/dvd.