> > > > BY the Way, do anyone of you know any free Defrag software that works "WELL" > with a > NTFS 1 TB USB drive - one partition. The two I have tried will not show the > "standard" > boxes they show when defraging the internal smaller drives on my laptop. I > need to "see" > what my drive looks like as with the other Win systems, but with this larger > drive. I now > use Linux for every system except my Vista laptop and I do not have the > option to have the > drive formatted to a Linux format, which I am told never needs defraging, and > get a Windows > computer read it through the USB connection, instead through the Linux > system's network > connection. Seeing the colors to see what is going on while it is defraging > or how much > of the drive needs work done on it, is what I prefer, but not seeing at this > time. When you get > more than 80% full, you need to keep it defraged or it gives you problems. > >
format the drive ext-3 and http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/03/mount-ext2-or-ext3-partition-in-windows.html
