Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 19 May 2004 06:15:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's IBM for ya. Nonsense. I've had one of their Deskstars in 24/7 service since 10/2001, and have never had to defrag it :). stephen kuhn - owner --

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 May 2004 00:13, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:35, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:32, Kaj Haulrich wrote: By way of confirmation, please witness these latest benchmarks in Linux Gazette which bear out what you are saying: http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html LX Interesting. And I think the defragging can be set up as a cron job.

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 22 May 2004 01:09, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Reiser, on the other hand, has the absolute worst showing of any of the other filesystems here in image021.jpg. Of the entire group, Reiser is the biggest CPU hog; while at the same time delivering no overall speed advantages to it's

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks to everyone for all the replies. Regards, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Shouldn't be necessesary to defrag with linux. It does it by itself.

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 07:47 am, Michael Tienhaara wrote: I'm a new Mandrake 10 user.  What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? It really isn't necessary with Linux because of the way the linux filesystems are designed. When linux writes to a file, it is much more efficient about

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr
Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Shouldn't be necessesary to defrag with linux. It does it by

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its various forms), and doesn't fragment files (not so you'd notice, anyway) so

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 22:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael 1.) Don't top post 2.) Read about the file systems 3.) Understand what you've just read. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:47, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, I'm a new Mandrake 10 user. What do most of you use to defrag your hard drives? Thanks, Michael Defragging is for Windows/DOS users. The file systems in UNIX/LINUX do not require defragging - but if you're bound and determined to

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael It's a completely different file system to MS dos ( in its various forms), and doesn't

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set times? Michael It's a completely different file

Re: [newbie] defraging

2004-05-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 22:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:12, PM wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:03, Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks for the reply. Now I'm curioushow? Does it defrag on the fly? Or, at set

RE: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Thread Jason Guidry
sweet. I put all of my partitions on ReiserFS after last month's discussion on filesystems. I'm glad to hear that there is no worry for me. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux? None. Only poorly-designed

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:16:57 -0400 when civileme wrote: Of course, no one really knows what NTFS does but it seems to be another system subject to fragmentation whose performance can be significantly improved by defragmenting. NTFS is most certainly prone to fragmentation. I worked at a

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data optimization/disk defragging under linux?

Re: [newbie] defraging

2001-08-14 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 10:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:48, Jason Guidry wrote: I'm always discovering holes in my linux education, and the thread on fsck made me think of defragmenting hard drives. is there a linux eq? what are the issues with data