I have an HDD that is in need of a defrag. I know the ext2 filesytem is not 'suppose' to need to be defragged, but mine does. I think using bittorrent is a part of the cause. Bittorrent downloads 'hunks' of the file at a time, and in no certain order. I do not claim to know the exact reasoning behind my assumption (that bittorrent is the cause of my fragmentation) but I do think it is the source. I would very much like to remedy the situation. Mike Hicks suggested that simply coping the files back and forth my take care of it. While that does sound like a plausable remedy, I don't really have the disk space to do that. I have read the man page for defrag and am wondering if this is safe to do? I do not intend to use windows defrag to solve this problem (for more reasons than 'its windows'). Has anyone had any experience siumular to these? Any ideas on the safest way to solve this problem? -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030718/9b473e2e/attachment.pgp