> > 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? If you have fat16 partition (DOS) and loadlin, then you can boot linux on RAM disk (like you boot it while installing Linux 1-st time on your computer). fat16 disk will be seen, so you can put there all necessary utilities.
Sasha.
