On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Conor Daly wrote:
>There are significant differences between Windows/DOS and Linux/UNIX as
>far as filesystems are concerned. The primary difference is that Windows
>is a single-user system while linux is multiuser. This has implications
>for you using a direct disk access program like Speed Disk (Linux
>equivalent fsck (actually, Speed disk and Scan disk rolled into one with
>probably a bit more on the side!)) while another user is writing to the
>disk. For example, suppose speed disk has read a cluster from the disk,
[...]
I don't think fsck really does anything to combat fragmentation does it?
I think it just checks for and repairs filesystem damage, like Scandisk does.
TTFN
Andy
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