On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Faisal Naeem wrote:
> I have run into an interesting snafu , wondering If anyone has any ideas.
> My hdisk was cranking a lot so i decided to defrag it , although some one
> said that i dont need to defrag an ext2 paritition( a habit that i have
> carried with me since the days of dos) went ahead installed the defragging
> utility in order to defrag something it must not be mounted otherwise
> e2defrag(defragger for ext2 , available from sunsitei believe
> /system/filesystems/fs/defrag*) wont work. I need to defrag my / . see the
> picture , which came first the chicken or the egg. Still wondering
I guess the solution then would be to boot from a floppy and run the
defrag program from the floppy. You would probably need to put the program
on the floppy or on some other partition that is not the one you need to
defrag. I have also heard that ext2 filesystems don't need to be defragged
and I have never found it necessary either but I guess it can't do any
harm to try it.
-Peter Frouman | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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