Adam Fabian wrote:
On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still very
much a newbie.
It's very unlikely that your filesystem needs defragmenting after 5
months. As other have already noted, ext3 isn't prone to
fragmentation. I wasn't even aware there was an ext2 defragmenting
utility, though. The traditional solution would be to use
dump/restore.
Ahhhh! That sounds like something that will read the hard drive and
write back each file to the drive in a
contiguous manner removing lost drive space something akin to MS
defrag. Am I correct in my assumption?
After scanning man dumpe2fs, I see mention of tune2fs and still wonder
if I have to remove some ext3 fs features
in order to run dump2fs on an ext3 fs. Do I? There were a couple more
dump programs, dump2 and dump, I believe were the names. From the man,
I believe you mean the dump2fs as it mentions ext3 in it. Am I correct
here?
If use of dump/restore is safe besides being the traditional solution,
I'd be grad to try it out. Is it relatively safe for
a newbie to use? Are there options I should use to assure not screwing
up my HD?
Thanks for your response and for seeing my request to copy my email
address. It makes my response much easier to do.
Leonard Chatagnier
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