On (24/08/05 10:24), Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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.
There might be something in:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show mtools
Package: mtools
Priority: standard
Section: otherosfs
Installed-Size: 480
Maintainer: Luis Bustamante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 3.9.9-2.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Suggests: floppyd
Filename: pool/main/m/mtools/mtools_3.9.9-2.1_powerpc.deb
Size: 203454
MD5sum: 1dbd6480ec9bb4b72f8ee904404d1cf1
Description: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix
without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names, OS/2
Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992kB on a high
density 3 1/2 disk).
.
Also included in this package are commands to eject and manipulate
the write/password protection control of Zip disks.
Tag: admin::filesystem, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility
Regards
Clive
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