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Clean up your local machine
After you've completed the migration, to clean up your local machine, you can
remove the directory that contains the copy of the source machine file system.
This page describes how you can clean up your local machine.
Clean up a Linux machine
To remove the directory that contains the copy of the source machine file
system from your local machine, run the following command:
./m2c cleanup --source PATH_TO_COPIED_FILESYSTEM
Replace PATH_TO_COPIED_FILESYSTEM with the path to the
copied file system directory.
Clean up a Windows machine
To clean up a Windows machine, you need to manually remove all the disk images
that you have on your local machine.
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