Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread John Foster
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it,

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? My understanding

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Foster wrote: I have been at this for a while (since the early 90's) I have yet to need to run any kind of defrag utility on any Linux distro. I did not see what is the reason for you considering this...but I strongly advise against it. If you are having some

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Robert Storey
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:03:36 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really

Re: Linux defragmenter? (ext2/3 defrag)

2003-08-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Robert Storey wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:03:36 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are

Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:23:04 -0500 (CDT) Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do I really live under a rock, or are they really not used? If not, why? Google holds the answer. Short form: FAT

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: Defragmentation is a waste of time http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partitiontip.html I also got this quote from IBM developer works: OK, you may ask, what's the big

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Message- From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux defragmenter? http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: Defragmentation is a waste of time

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:49:02PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, but it supposedly