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
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.
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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)
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
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
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
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'
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
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