On Monday 08 May 2006 08:52 am, IraqiGeek wrote: > On Monday, May 08, 2006 4:13 PM GMT, > > Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IraqiGeek wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I want to defragment my debian partition (the entire system is > >> installed in one partition). Googling around, I found references to > >> the unstable and oldstable defrag packages, however, when searching > >> through aptitude, and through apt-cache I couldn't find any packages > >> that can do this. BTW, I am running debian etch. > > > > The first question is why do you want to defragment it? In the long > > run, it won't make much difference, and Linux distros fragment much > > less than windows does (Unless MS has improved in that regard). > > I know that, but I'm running a pair of debian etch boxes over vmware, and > the disk images have grown to almost tripple the size of the actual > installation. I want to reclaim the 3+ GBs on the partition (I'm running a > bit short on disk space), and in order for the vmware utility to compact > the image, I need to defrag the filesystem first. > > And no M$ hasnt improved in that regard. > > > Regards, > IraqiGeek > www.iraqigeek.com > > A fault tolerant system must report the faults even as it tolerates them.
I'm pretty sure VMWare has a utility / function (called "shrink" maybe?) that restores the file size on the host to the guest filesystem size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
