Re: DEFRAG for ext2fs

[Bruce Perens]

It is out-of-date and perhaps somewhat dangerous to your filesystem.
You also don't need it. ext2fs tends to keep your disk blocks in order.
It's not nearly as bad as the FAT filesystem in this respect.

The best way to defragement any filesystem is to back it up, make a fresh
filesystem, and restore it.

Bruce
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DEFRAG for ext2fs

[GREENE KENNETH ADAM]

I found a program on SUNSITE (in system/filesystems) for 
defragmenting disks under Linux, and I was wondering if anyone has 
compiled it.  I tried, but the compiler says function FIRST_INODE (or something 
close to that, sorry but the code is at home and I'm at school) is 
undefined.  What it really is a #define statement that expands, but 
it requires a parameter, and I am not sure what it wants, and I don't 
want to experiment on my system.  Has anyone fixed it, compiled it, 
or otherwise made it available??


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