Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there JH> for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but JH> it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is JH> something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's JH> just cause I'm lazy:b Can anyone recommend anything JH> else, or is this the only possible solution?
AFAIK, defrag/e2defrag is the only ext2 defragmenter available. It's generally considered the case that ext2fs is good enough about avoiding fragmentation on its own that a defragmenter isn't usually thought necessary, and every version of e2defrag I've played with has advertised itself as dangerous. At any rate, no matter what you're doing, any program that plays around with raw blocks on the disk is going to require that the disk be unmounted. Anything else is asking for trouble when the kernel's view of the disk state disagrees with the actual disk state. This is the same reason that fsck requires the disk to be unmounted before it'll do repairs. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
