I've experienced the same issue even when the check is against my home folder. Just noticed that using 'sudo' resolves the problem on my machine.
Using Xubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Hope this will help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1143816 Title: e4defrag option -c reports nothing but "done" Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Specifying e4defrag -c dirname just give "Done" and nothing else. Note: the directory contained a file that was badly fragmented, I presume, because the program took more than 20 minutes to defrag that file. Note: the fragmentation occurred when the volume filled up to 1%. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1143816/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
