Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:11PM +0000, Christian Lavoie wrote: > > > I've got a single ext2fs partition, so it is the root partition. > > > That's the one I need to defrag/scan, so even having it mounted as > > > read only won't help. (At least for the defrag) > > > > > > So as far as I can tell I need either: > > > - A win95/dos based tool to defragment a linux partition (yeah right) > > > - A floppy (or CD-ROM) based dist that won't access my HD at all. (And > > > has the adequate tools) > > > - Another computer with linux installed. (Forget it) > > > - A way to boot without any root partition. > > > > > > But then, how does UNIX administrator were dealing with such issues? > > > How can one scan and/or defrag a ext2fs? > > > Hmmm. I think you should be able to defrag the root while it's mounted > > read-only, as long as the defrag tool knows to flush the cache > afterwards. > > You can fsck the root while it's mounted no problem. > > You're right for fsck, but not for defrag. So the problem still > stands. > Try toms self-contained boot/emergency disk. www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/ It has a load of Linux utilities on a single floppy disk.
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