No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, ...

CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

Ran into a brick wall on this one. Trying to use the disk builtin check with icinga2 for my linux boxes, but for anything other than the '/' partition, it tells me that the disk in question is "not ...

There are three main ways to clear cache in a Windows 10 computer: temporary files cache, File Explorer history, and browser ...

Apple's macOS, through UNIX, provides a variety of tools to keep your drives healthy, with one of them being the fsck Terminal command. Here's how to use it. fsck, or "file system consistency check," ...

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I'm using a 5 1/2 year old Acer computer. Currently it's off line work and maybe an hour a day at most. I've owned it since it was new and to this day there have been no hard drive problems. I check ...