On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 06:32:49PM -0500, Bill Layer wrote: >The last thread reminded me of this. > >If anyone is planning to install Linux to a drive currently partitioned as >FAT, it would make sense to defrag that drive, last thing before shutting >down and coming to the installfest. This will save a great deal of time if >you plan to use anything like Partition Magic or FIPS to create a new >partition on a drive that is currently storing data. > Hey Bill, sounds like a lesson learned from the last time. Good call. I seem to remember that there was one person install who needed to do this and she had a pretty BIG very fragmented drive too. -- Ben Lutgens Work: 612.379.5941 Cell: 651.387.9065 Home: 651.703.9541 Systems Administrator Sistina Software Inc. http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org