ext3 filesystems don't need a defrag program because they don't become
fragmented (Well they do, but not more than a fraction of a percent) as for
scandisk, it's "fsck" or filesystem check. If you yank the cable out of the
wall, or power off your computer without shutting down, next boot time it
will automatically run fsck on the effected drives. This can take a long
time. (1-20 minutes)
ReiserFS to the rescue... an option on the 7.1 installation was to format
your partitions as ReiserFS. It is very similar to ext2 in performance and
near nill fragmentation, but is Journaled. In other words, keeps a record
of what is written so if the system is powered off without shutting down it
"knows where to look" for half written blocks on the disk thus making
filesystem checks take signifigantly less time (1-10 seconds)
-David Talbot
At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
>ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
>
>Thanks
>
>Joe
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
>
>
>> I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two
>> occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them
>> until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's
>> a massive search going on. What's up with this?
>>
>> --
>> Mark
>>
>> I love my Linux Box....!
>> REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows!
>> Registered Linux user #1299563
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on
>furiously for
>> >a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program
>set up
>> >by Mandrake to act regularly at this time.
>> >
>> >I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and
>acron
>> >tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to
>study
>> >their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I
>didn't
>> >fint a man page.
>> >
>> >Daoes anybody know?
>> >
>>
