Re: disk defragging

[Tom Burke <tomii erols com>]

Interestingly enough, the way tar works, it will defrag yor disk for you...
Tar the drive off to a tape, & then restore it to the original drive...  It
should defrag the disk for you...

Note, that for all the utilities & commands that are installed initially, they
should never need defragged, as they are never re-written...  Maybe an
interesting way to check if you've been hacked (just a thought)

John D. Hardin wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Juha Saarinen wrote:
>
> > By using a third-party defragger... or install the NT 5 / Win2000
> > beta, which comes with a "lite" version of a commercial defragger (I
> > forget which one it is).
>
> Diskeeper, from Executive Software. There is a free demo and a full
> commercial version. Everyone please note that this is for NTFS...
>
> >
> > -- Juha
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bill Gilmore [mailto:willygilly home com]
> > >
> > > Defrag in NT?
> > > How?
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Borden, Andrew [mailto:Andrew Borden gs com]
> > >
> > > Are the any tools to defragement disks under Linux? It seems to
> > > make a big difference for NT machines to keep them defragged and I
> > > was wondering if fragmentation is an issue on Linux.
>
> What I find amusing is how, if you'll read the press and introductory
> books from back in the early NT days (before and during NT 3.1), MS
> was bragging how "NTFS was immune to fragmentation". Yeah, right.
>
> There are defragmentation tools available for ext2fs. I don't know any
> names or URLs - try a dejanews search of comp.os.linux.announce
>
> ext2fs is subject to fragmentation, but (in my experience) to a much
> lesser degree than FAT or NTFS.
>
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