Re: defrag and error checking

This was very informative. Thanks Curtis, I didn't know this difference about the Linux vs WinOS file systems.

Eve

----- Original Message -----
From: Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:18 am
Subject: Re: defrag and error checking
To: linux@slg.org

> Error checking comes in the form of fsck but there is no defrag
> as linux
> (and more specifically the ext 2/3 file system) is a "neater"
> way to write
> files to the drive and theoretically doesn't need to be
> defragged.  Windows
> and the Fat or NTFS file systems can be very messy.  They
> start writing new
> files in the first availible free space regardless of whether
> that free
> space is big enough to handle the file or not.  After time
> this requires you
> to Defragment the drive by moving files around so they are
> contiguous on the
> drive.  Linux doesn't work this way and has background
> daemons which are
> constantly optimizing the drive with spare CPU cycles so you
> really don't
> need to.  Give fsck a try and if that doesn't work it
> probably means there
> is another issue and it's not your file system.
>
> On 8/22/07, vampyre wolf <vampyrewolf@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My laptop has been having some nice glitches lately, but only
> on the linux
> > boot (did my standard winblows cleaning last week).
> >
> > According to the update-manager and adept I'm up to date, so
> there haven't
> > been any patches I've missed.  Are there either programs
> or commands to
> > defrag and run error checking?  I don't want to reinstall
> feisty again, but
> > will format the / and start again if needed (SoP from winblows).
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Haryett
>
>
>
>
> --
> Rev. Kurtis "Kleedrac" Peterson
> http://www.kleedrac.com/
>
Received on Wed Aug 22 08:57:36 2007