Re: Defrag

2010-09-21 Thread Bryan O'Neal
ext is nothing like FAT - unless you beet your drives up by filling and removing random files you will not see much benefit from a monthly defrag. The average user would not see much benefit after a few years, or perhaps more. But for some of us it can be quite advantageous. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010

Re: Defrag

2010-09-20 Thread James Mcphee
used to DOS and defragging every month. Old habits are hard to > break. > > > . > Eric - A > . > > > -- Original Message -- > From: Eric Shubert > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Defrag > Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:11:42

Re: Defrag

2010-09-20 Thread Eric - A
I had a look at the "Disk Usage Analyzer" and the hard disk looks fine. I am just used to DOS and defragging every month. Old habits are hard to break. . Eric - A . -- Original Message -- From: Eric Shubert To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: D

Re: Defrag

2010-09-20 Thread Eric Shubert
Bryan O'Neal wrote: Many of you know my feelings on file fragmentation in linux. However Keven is correct that EXT4 is the only approved way to gain defrag functionality short of cleaning the drive and moving your files back in starting with the largest and most frequently accessed files

Re: Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Many of you know my feelings on file fragmentation in linux. However Keven is correct that EXT4 is the only approved way to gain defrag functionality short of cleaning the drive and moving your files back in starting with the largest and most frequently accessed files. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 1

Re: Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin Faulkner
On Sunday 19 September 2010 07:19:05 Eric - A wrote: > Hi All, I was wondering if I could defrag my hard drive under ubuntu 10.04 > ? > ext4 does have online defragmentation, however I don't think it is available for Ubuntu. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.

Re: Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Eric - A
no windows, ubuntu only . Eric - A . Please note: message attached From: Dazed_75 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Defrag Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:42:38 -0700 Compare Life Ins Rates Protect Your Family Today for under

Re: Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Dazed_75
Or did he mean could he defrag his windows drive from (while running) ubuntu. Lately there have been a spate of applications for doing things to a windows partition from Linux (e.g. virus check, data recovery, password reset, partition resizing, etc). On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Tuna wrote

Re: Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Tuna
On 09/19/2010 07:19 AM, Eric - A wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if I could defrag my hard drive under ubuntu 10.04 ? No, and you wouldn't need to anyway. ext3 and ext4 manage things a lot better than NTFS and FAT32, so the problem of fragmentation is greatly minimized. . Eri

Defrag

2010-09-19 Thread Eric - A
Hi All, I was wondering if I could defrag my hard drive under ubuntu 10.04 ? . Eric - A . Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM