I would boot a Windows/DOS boot disk and run defrag from there. I would not try it from linux. Just my first thoughts.
-Jason -----Original Message----- From: Hendrik Boom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my (FAT) drive? On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:49:58PM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > > You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. > > Many people say so, but it is not true. > > Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragmentation a bit (in comparison with > (V)FAT), but ext2 can't prevent it. And it is not a feature of 'Linux' it is > a feature of the filesystem. While we're on the subject, how *do* you defragment an MSDOS file system when you're running Linux. I'm faced with a MSDOS-formatted USB drive that is used to ferry data to a plugin for a Nintendo DS that requires each file to be contiguous. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
