On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Am I way out in left field here? I'm not too familiar with the
>> super gory details of on disk data structure in ext2...
>>
>> Would a defragmentation help?
>
>How often do you reboot?
Not often.
>How long does it take to reboot?
Not long.
>How much time do you anticipate that you might save each time you reboot?
It isn't that really.. I just do not like the smashing noises the
disk heads make and I want to avoid that. That is really the
only reason.
>How long do you think it would take to defrag?
No idea.. I just would like the disk to not make so much noise
as it just started doing this after the etc dir got foobed.
I could tar it up, mke2fs, and restore, which would probably do
what I want, but I'd like to explore options first.
>I don't know your circumstances, but my most-frequently-booted computers
>rarely get booted more than once every few days & one tends to run from one
>power failure to the next. heck, it skipped kernel versions that I built and
>installed because there was no other reason to reboot.
Yeah, I've done similar too. I'm just concerned with disk head
smashing around as it sounds bad. If I were to reformat and find
that it still occured, I'd be very concerned that my disk is
wearing out although I don't believe that to be the case.
This is just an attempt to explain the new noises and try to fix
it. I might just backup and restore...
Thanks for the answer,
TTYL
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