If defrag finds any errors during the scandisk-like mode of it (first 5%) it
wouldn't let me continue. I ran scandisk before running defrag and it
didn't do anything to my linux partition because I rebooted to linux to make
sure it still works and it worked after scandisk was run and there were no
errors in scandisk.
Defrag is supposed to only defragment files within the partition, why does
it go as far as wiping my linux partition and screwing up the partition
table to do it?
Even if I disable its check for errors and program optimizer, it ends up
destroying the linux partition when run.
What does defrag need to do to other partitions to get its job done on the
windows partition anyways and WHY?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Tharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
> maybe the defrag is running scandisk, and auto settings are set to repair
> the boot sector?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
>
>
> >
> > > Why is it that everytime I defrag in windows (in safe mode) that it
> results
> > > in screwing up my linux partition and making my computer unbootable
> because
> > > grub can't read the linux partition?
> >
> > Maybe you're setting your defrag tool to do an entire disk rather than
> > just the Windows partition. OTher than that, I have no idea
> >
> >
>
>
