On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Mr O wrote: > Try K3B or Gcombust for an easy to use CD burning GUI. XCDroast > works too but isn't as friendly as the first two for tasks other > than copying CDs. > > As for filesystems, if you're using ext3 or reiserFS those are > journaled so things tend to stay in better order. Generally > speaking most distros will do an automatic disk check upon > bootup after so many reboots or if it's been so many days since > the last one. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.
I'm pretty sure fsck is done on all Linuxes, that it is not a function of distribution. The actual number of boots is somewhat variable, but there is an upper limit. I don't remember what tool sets it. I just got a "/dev/hda8 was mounted more than 20 times, running fsck" early today. (I've been booting a *lot* lately to test Grub.) But fsck doesn't have anything to do with defrag. fsck is verifying, and if necessary, repairing the file system. Hmm. That may not be entirely correct. The -D option of e2fsck talks about optimizing directories. I don't know if this option is used automatically during those boot fsck's. I doubt it. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? --- Albert Einstein > --- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm using Mandrake 9.1 right now for most all things except > > putting > > > my .jpgs on a CD that I can play on my DVD for family and > > friends > > > much like a KODAK PhotoCD (anyone know of an acceptable *nix > > > replacement app?) > > > This is a filesystem question. Linux can use many file > > systems, > > but the most common are ext2, ext3, and reiserfs (in my > > opinion). > > None of those systems require defragging. > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
