That sounds awesome. Almost enough to make me want to upgrade to 7.1
already. Even though my 7.0 installation is just over a week old!
--
Mark
I love my Linux box...
REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
Registered Linux user #1299563
David Talbot wrote:
>
> 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?
> >> >
> >>
