On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, you wrote:
>I have run into an interesting snafu , wondering If anyone has any ideas.
>My hdisk was cranking a lot so i decided to defrag it , although some one
>said that i dont need to defrag an ext2 paritition( a habit that i have
>carried with me since the days of dos) went ahead installed the defragging
>utility in order to defrag something it must not be mounted otherwise
>e2defrag(defragger for ext2 , available from sunsitei believe
>/system/filesystems/fs/defrag*) wont work. I need to defrag my / . see the
>picture , which came first the chicken or the egg. Still wondering
BACKUP YOUR / PARTITION!
Make sure you have a copy of e2defrag somewhere other than /. Get tomsrtbt.
( http://www.toms.net/rb/ ). Make a tomsrtbt disk. Boot it. Mount your /usr
partition (or wherever you have e2defrag). Then defrag your / partition.
I would highly recommend that you then mount / somewhere and run lilo before
trying to reboot off of your hard disk.
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Utilities Dept., University of Texas at Austin
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