<DIV>By the sound of it I will not be needing half the number of tools that I am used to using under Windows. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks </DIV>
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<DIV>Mo</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, sparkes wrote:<BR><BR>> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:51, Mo Awkati wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > > > I am sorry if this sounds a bit newbie, but how do I scan and defrag the<BR>> > > > hard disc under Linux??<BR>> > > <BR>> > > there's normally no need.<BR>> ><BR>> > Why is that? What if there is a bad sector on the hard drive that<BR>> > needs to be "ignored"?<BR><BR>Is this really the thing to do to a dodgy disk under Windows?<BR><BR>> fsck (the butt of many jokes) will sort out any problems you have. This<BR>> will run on boot whenever the system believes it needs to.<BR><BR>AFAIK, fsck only handles filesystem corruption. Bad-blocks are handled by<BR>the drives themselves (all disks have a certain number of bad blocks<BR>from the word go) and by the kernel as it goes along.<BR><BR>Anyway, IIRC, once upon
a time someone did write a defrag tool for ext2,<BR>the default Linux filesystem, but it was so seldom used that nobody<BR>bothered to maintain it.<BR><BR>VxFS, a filesystem written by Veritas, does have a defrag tool that they<BR>suggest you run at least once a month, but it doesn't seem to have much in<BR>common with the Windows FAT defrag, only taking a few minutes to run.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Peter Oliver<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Wolves LUG mailing list<BR>Homepage: http://www.wolveslug.org.uk/<BR>Mailing list: Wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk<BR>Mailing list home: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wolves</BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr size=1><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/tagline_messenger/*http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com"><b>
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