Re: Defrag Program

[dizzY <dizzy cybernet ro>]

Randy Smith wrote:

> For some reason, I
> was under the impression that I did not need swap space with system RAM
> at or above 16 megs. I have 32 in this system. Is this true??

Yes and no - i lived happily for some moths with 16M RAM and 18M of
swap. If
you use just console applications it should be enough. once you've run X
and
netscape, you'll discover that you dont have enough memory, no matter
how much
RAM you have (well... yeah.. 128<b might be enough :) )

> If I need a swap partition, what is the best way (non-destructive) to
> get it?
>

If you want something completly safe and non-destructive, go for swap
file on
one of your partitions. Create one file with dd, makeswap on it and that
swapon
the file. It works good enough.

> Here is what my drive looks like:
> /dev/hdb1   <== (Win95) 50% of drive (1.6 gig)
> /dev/hdb2   <== (Linux Native) 50% of drive (1.6 gig)
>
> Here is what I want to have:
> /dev/hdb1   <== (Win95) 50% of drive (1.6 gig)
> /dev/hdb2   <== (Linux Native)
> /dev/hdb3   <== (Linux Swap)
>
> I thought about running FIPS to break the /dev/hdb2 partition into
> /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3, but I need to move all the data to the
> beginning of the partition. How is this done with linux? Is there a
> program equivalent to windozes' DEFRAG?
> Is there any reason why FIPS would not work for this?
>

I don't know if fips works on ext2 partitios - and it doesnt worth the
trouble
of defragmenting it anyway. Why dont you split your windoze partition???

> I am just full of questions today :)
> Thanks!
> Randy Smith
>

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