Re: defragmentation

2001-12-06 Thread burns
On December 5, 2001 03:59 am, Declan Moriarty wrote: > I can chase it up if you're mad interested. Errr, no thanks. :o) -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-05 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
Declan Just use a journeling system. All works well. Kurt DEP Skippy David Doug Henley Net LLama and many others make a living as do I in Linus and/or other OS's. Most, 99% time, if not all they know what they are talking about. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [E

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-05 Thread Declan Moriarty
d 'defrag') but never ran it. It was alpha or beta anyhow, and I ran it once; I had to unmount the disk (/ in my case). It wouldn't run off a floppy because it needed libraries :-o. Shades of M$? Apparently the logic is that the ext2 auto defragmentation isn't perfect an

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:03:15 -0500 burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On December 4, 2001 06:31 am, zohar wrote: > > I want to defragment individual programs(or more than one) rather than > > whole hard disk. Is there any utility for that. > > Just a thought... couldn't you just copy all the fil

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-05 Thread burns
//linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Defragmentation is a Windows requirement. The file structures used for Linux (e.g. ext2) don't require defragmentation, just a periodic fsck. -- burns ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-04 Thread Keith Antoine
If you are talking Linux then there is no defrag, it does it each time it starts up and is non selective. There is no utility to defrag linux nor ever will be especially with journelled file systems. zohar wrote: > I want to defragment individual programs(or more than one) rather than whole > ha

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-04 Thread Net Llama
So? Linux uses an intelligent filesystem that is designed as to avoid significant fragmentation. Linux is not windoze. I doubt you'll ever see fragmentation above 10%. --- zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seeing the log file of defrag utility that is of w2K > - Original Message - >

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:50:06AM +0530, zohar wrote: >seeing the log file of defrag utility that is of w2K Most Unix type file systems haven't needed defragmentation since the early 1980s. The first Radio Shack Xenix systems may have required defragmentation every year or two, but e

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-04 Thread zohar
seeing the log file of defrag utility that is of w2K - Original Message - From: "Net Llama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:27 PM Subject: Re: defragmentation > > --- zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: defragmentation

2001-12-04 Thread Net Llama
--- zohar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to defragment individual programs(or more than one) rather than > whole > hard disk. Is there any utility for that. > What makes you so certain that anything is fragmented in the first place? = ~~