Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-06 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:45 PM 9/5/2002 +1000, you wrote: Well I've set up a lot of dual boot machines and defragging the FAT32 partitions has never caused a problem (even using the crappy defragger built in to 9x). I've lost the original message, but it would seem that we are tackling this from the wrong premise

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-06 Thread dfox
WILL Screw ME to hell back. They also screw linux most times. Esp. if they do a surface scan repair job. Diskeeper is a little better from Hmm. I recall borrowing a copy of some commercial drive repair software - supposedly able to find and recover marginal sectors on a drive. Anyway,

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-05 Thread Daniele de Sanctis
downloaded and triedsame shit, i weren't able to boot anymoreany other idea? Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:12, Miark wrote: Where? Miark Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Well at the risk of being drawn and quartered, note that you can download

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-05 Thread Brian Parish
Well I've set up a lot of dual boot machines and defragging the FAT32 partitions has never caused a problem (even using the crappy defragger built in to 9x). I've lost the original message, but it would seem that we are tackling this from the wrong premise - i.e. that ME is just lamentable and

RE: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
: [newbie] defrag and linux Hello, On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:21:13 -0400, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniele de Sanctis wrote: didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another question: i'm thinking of installing

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:26, Mark Weaver wrote: Angus Auld wrote: Hi there, I've been running a dual-boot on my Dell Dimm for a few months now w/Mdk 8.2 and WinMe, and they seem to cohabitating peacefully on my hd. I have defragged my Win partition a few times and it hasn't caused any

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-04 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:12, Miark wrote: Where? Miark Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Well at the risk of being drawn and quartered, note that you can download a free version of Diskkeeper for 98/ME... Here: http://www.executive.com/downloads/menu.asp cheers Brian P.S.

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Daniele de Sanctis
didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my windows partition. that installation could produce problem to the linux partition (maybe in principle not, but.)thank u

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Daniele de Sanctis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:51:42 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag and linux didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Daniele de Sanctis wrote: didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my windows partition. that installation could produce problem to the linux partition (maybe in

RE: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Albert Charron
: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag and linux Hi there, I've been running a dual-boot on my Dell Dimm for a few months now w/Mdk 8.2 and WinMe, and they seem to cohabitating peacefully on my hd. I have defragged my Win partition a few times

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Richard Holt
Hello, On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:21:13 -0400, Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniele de Sanctis wrote: didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98 and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my windows

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 03:51, Mark Weaver wrote: Albert Charron wrote: I know there is a problem with the defrag tool on WinME. The problem is resolved with a patch download (though windows update). The problem is not just related to dualboot. In fact, the defrag utility (if not

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Brian Parish wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 03:51, Mark Weaver wrote: Albert Charron wrote: I know there is a problem with the defrag tool on WinME. The problem is resolved with a patch download (though windows update). The problem is not just related to dualboot. In fact, the defrag

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-03 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 September 2002 10:24 am, Albert Charron did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I know there is a problem with the defrag tool on WinME. The problem is ME, from start to end, is the worst POS ever created... - -- Everyone

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-02 Thread dfox
This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1030981495-3326-399 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dear all, i have a laptop with a winME partition and a linuxM (8.2) partition, they lived and grown up without problem until

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 22 February 2001 08:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Ryan Le Gros wrote: the way the linux file system works keeps your drive defragmented at all times. thats one of the reasons its absolutely vital that you shut your machine down

RE: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Rodríguez
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux? Ryan Le Gros wrote: the way the linux file system works keeps your drive defragmented at all times

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Barry Premeaux
? I'm going to look it up now, but I was interested in your subjected opinion of it. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it up now, but I was interested in your subjected opinion of it. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux? Ryan Le

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread Goldenpi
- Original Message - From: "John David Molina" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux? El Martes 20 Febrero 2001 11:39, escribiste: - Windows is a virus. - I disagree

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 22 February 2001 08:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Ryan Le Gros wrote: the way the linux file system works keeps your drive defragmented at all times. thats one of the reasons its absolutely vital that you shut your machine down properly. Not if you're running with ReiserFS. :)

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-21 Thread John David Molina
El Martes 20 Febrero 2001 11:39, escribiste: - Windows is a virus. - I disagree. Virus DO something right. ;-) -- John David Molina

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Ryan Le Gros
the way the linux file system works keeps your drive defragmented at all times. thats one of the reasons its absolutely vital that you shut your machine down properly. Ryan Le Gros - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:39

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Anthony
The command is e2fsck. Generally there's no need to invoke this, as most Linux distributions are set up to run every 20th boot up or so. Check the man pages on how to use it. Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a function (or need) to defrag hard drive(s) under Linux? -

RE: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Ingo Bauer
no need to !! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 20, 2001 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] defrag in Linux? Is there a function (or need) to defrag hard drive(s) under Linux? - Windows is a virus.

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread bascule
this seems like an opportune moment to ask about defragging of win partitions in linux, after encoding a lot of mp3s in linux simultaneously i noticed that when in win and running defrag that my mp3 partition (vfat) was majorly defragmented in a fashion that suggested that each successive

Re: [newbie] defrag in Linux?

2001-02-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
E2fsck is more like Windos Scandisc than Defrag, in that it finds and fixes errors (it does not defragment). Linux filesystems (namely Ext2, Ext3 and ReiserFS) are structured so that defragmenting is totally unnecessary. When you run e2fsck on an Ext2 partition, it gives its fragmentation