On Mon, 31 May 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> 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
Not quite. e2fsck only checks the integrity of your filesystems, and
doesn't care if all your files are heavily fragmented, although it prints
out a count. You could see e2fsck as some sort of scandisk in dos/windows
Frank
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> > [...]
> >
> > 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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