Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-14 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Thu, 08 Sep: On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick yes or no: BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any

disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? 10x, Moshe. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically relating to ext3/2 here)

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Moshe Akirav
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design (I'm specifically

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Moshe Akirav wrote: Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: Moshe Akirav wrote: Hi all, I was wondering why don't I need to defragment my disk, Everyone says it is not necessary, Does anyone know the reason ? There is no reason. Fragmentation can and will occur. It's true that due to file system design

Re: disk defragmentation

2005-09-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/8/05, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The short answer: Just in case someone can answer a quick yes or no: BSD 4.2's filesystem used to move blocks around as files grew in order to keep them together, does ext2 (or any other Linux filesystem, to that matter) also use such

Re: Defragmentation

1999-07-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
Quoting Yedidya Bar-david [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Iftach Hyams wrote: The defrag program can't run while the FS is mounted. Is there a way to boot with a diskette and apply it ? You can do it with the filesystem mounted read-only. In your boot prompt (lilo?) give a parameter '-b'

Defragmentation

1999-07-07 Thread Iftach Hyams
The defrag program can't run while the FS is mounted. Is there a way to boot with a diskette and apply it ? (My system is Mandrake 6 if it is relevant). - Iftach Hyams [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04 831 5605 If you cannot convince them, confuse

Re: Defragmentation

1999-07-07 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Yedidya Bar-david [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Hi, You can do it with the filesystem mounted read-only. In your boot prompt (lilo?) give a parameter '-b' (or better, 'boot=/bin/sh' - I don't know what Mandrake does with '-b'), humm be default the