On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Andrew Robins <arob...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > whups sorry Dennis - my bad sentence structure. I never feel the need to > defrag with Puppy, I use ext4 and ext3 formatted partitions with ext3 fs > myself...
You were clear enough. My point was simply that you couldn't if you wanted to. There's no utility to do it. As mentioned, a goal of Ext4 is to support defragging down the road. I believe one of Puppy's longer term goals is to support XFS as the file system, but I'm pleased enough with Ext4. > I meant that "when in Windoze - defrag, defrag, defrag..." a In Windows, I use NTFS, and one reason is that it's more fragmentation resistant than FAT. I defrag frequently, but that's fussiness more than necessity. > habit I mistakenly transferred to my FreeDos install - and perhaps > running DOSFSCK on my FAT32 sd-card will might make a difference. I was > getting unusual behaviours that was otherwise not detected in tests I > used from UBCD. What sort of unusual behavior? > Sorry to read of your browser woes - when my Firefox > gets sluggish I switch to qupzilla (webkit Qt-based) in my Puppy > installs - puts the fun right back into surfing. The problem in my case is old slow hardware. Like I said, a UDMA 4 HD and a whopping 256MB RAM. Current Firefoxes require a faster machine with more RAM. Small apps run quick. Big ones like Firefox, Eclipse, and Open Office are slow. In my Windows desktop using XP, I have 4GB RAM. XP for technical reasons can only use 3.2GB of it. I found a freeware ramdisk driver that can see the RAM Windows can't use, and have a 768MB ramdisk seen as drive Z. I run Firefox from the ramdrive. A startup script copies Firefox, my profile, and the cache to the ramdisk when I boot, and FF is run from there. (A shutdown script saves changes back to the HD.) It's *quick*. I looked at Qupzilla, but I don't generally browse from the old notebook machine, so it hasn't been a pressing issue. (The notebook is mostly a test to see what performance I can wring out of it *without* spending money.) > Cheers ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
