On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:17:54 -0500, you wrote: Hi Mark,
>Great! Yes, FAT32 partitions need to be defragmented first. >I thought that was in there. I just checked...I guess if >you are not running XP, you don't have XP's disk defragmenter! >:-) That one I found is better than built-in "Disk Defragmenter". >NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require >defragmentation. Thanks for the note about /dev/sda. Was >this a SCSI hard disk? Not sure, Gparted reported error, after defrag it worked. No, it's a Serial-ATA. >The default for an IDE hard drive is /dev/hda. I don't have many Linux experience, just a bit about the device, new device name can let me "hang-up". >Glad this worked. Now, that wasn't TOO hard, was it? :-) No, but I think the highlighting rather rough, maybe I can help you to make the screen capture even better. >I've asked the gparted guys to add the feature to set the >partition ID, which would eliminate the "fdisk" steps. >I hope they will get around to it. Yeah, I hope they'll implement that, fdisk text screen will scare the sh-t out of some "Windows People". >BTW, Linux "fdisk" is very powerful, stable, and quite >useful! :-) It is much more powerful than the DOS >versions. But without your guile I don't know how to use it. Someone may consider these are "extra" document, but it is NECESSARY. Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
