[HLUG] Hard drive partitioning

[Mark Broadbent]

On 04/03/2008, george at dicenews dot com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
> DRAT
>  I didnt to a defrag before i repartitioned,
>  does that mean my partitions are messed up all over the hard disk?

The partition editor will either limit the minimum size that you could
resize the partition to or will do some nifty moving files around to
get to the size you wanted.  You're partitions should be fine.  You
could use gparted to confirm this.

>  Will a defrag now tidy it up?

It wouldn't change anything.

Thanks
Mark