What you can do is boot from your "rescue" disk, mount your linux partition
and then run "e2fsck" and it'll "defrag" your system... although it sort of
does that automagically at boot. It checks for how badly fragmented
(non-contiguous) your file system is and then when Linux decides it's too
badly "fragmented" (i.e. "non-contiguous") it will auto-run e2fsck and fix
your file system so that it's more contiguous.
John
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From: Maurice Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 6:50 AM
Subject: e2defrag (was: RE: fragmentation)
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 26 May 1999 02:57
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: fragmentation
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> [...]
> > To defrag /, you must boot up a system with a different /. If you have
> > a spare partition, you can install a minimal system on it including
> > e2defrag, boot it, and defrag your main partition. Or you can make a
> > custom rescue floppy including e2defrag, and do the same. You should
> [...]
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> I've not heard of e2defrag before. It isn't on my RH5.2 nor on my SuSE 6.1
> CDs. Where can I ftp it from?
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