Or will it wear out the emmc drive prematurely?
i use it just dont run it as root, i have done that on L5 cleaning up all and it nuked my PureOS 10 on L5. Probably related to zwap / cache cleaning
That said i use bleechbit for spring cleaning like every 4months or so not every day.
Its also not integrated yet for mobile pureos 10, it wont delete sms, chat message history.
On a side note that should be added to Gnome settings and a default Gnome function called Forget Me - or something like it that includes the Gnome stack / world / core app history data bases and folders - and also simply deletes the entire home cache folder…
as in: sudo rm -rf /home/purism/.cache/*
Wow, thanks for the info!
I use Stacer on my L5. Seems to work well for cleaning + a lot of other functionality too.
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Make sure you don’t do any shredding on flash-based devices - SSD, eMMC, SD, none of them. It won’t work perfectly, and on top of that it will destroy the device. Shredding is for spinning rust drives (and still not perfect).
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As said here. Do not use bleachbit on an ssd. I’m amazed that bleachbit still put their software forward in this manner. Its for spinners only, and then not great. I use trim on my laptops but don’t know about the L5.
By ‘destroy’ do you mean that it will shorten the lifetime?
Yes. Flash memory is a consumable item, you can’t use it forever. Shredding will make you consume it much faster.
What about if I only use the cleaning function in Stacer, would it do any harm to the disks?
It doesn’t mention shredding, so probably not.