On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : In a message dated 3/4/99 7:40:39 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : writes: : : > > The appear to be tools to `defrag' an ext2 : > > partition, but I never saw any convincing reasons for using them. They : > > may even be a risk to your data. : > : > I've tried the ext2 defrag program, and while it seems to work OK, I : > didn't see any noticable benefit from doing it, other than the fsck : > summary information looks better :-) : > : : So, defragging your disk isn't a normal Debian maintenance task? Is this true : for all you guys that have been running Debian "forever"?
I can't say I've run Debian "forever", but I have been running it since 1.2 - I've never defragged a drive. I never defragged a drive with BSDi, either, nor did I ever see a drive defragged when I worked around SCO, HPUX, and IRIX ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
