Zane Gilmore wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:57, Chad wrote:
Mandrake 9.2 and later (not sure about 9.1) can do non-destructive resizing of ntfs you need to defrag in windows then just use the Mandrake tools.
I thought that defragging was reasonably irrelevant on NTFS like ext2/3
because of the way they work.
My understanding is that it is only FAT that requires defragging. Am I wrong?
I'm curious too. I used to defrag my old Atari hard drive monthly, with a clever defragger that moved everything to the back of the disk, so that anything temporary/new was written to the front of the disk and the permanent system files never got moved after a few cycles of defragging, but stayed safe away from temporary data.
I'm running ext3. Is there a need to perform any disk maintenance like defragging on that?
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand.
