Re: DEFRAG for ext2fs

1996-11-28 Thread 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It is out-of-date and perhaps somewhat dangerous to your filesystem.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 resto

DEFRAG for ext2fs

1996-11-27 Thread 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 real