Re: defrag and error checking

Booted to recovery mode, ran fsck. According to it my system is fine. Find
out when I get home from work if that made any difference, only had time to
get it done before I ran out the door.

On 8/22/07, Eve Kotyk <e.kotyk@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> 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 17:42:12 2007