Er...hit send on accident. Anyway, if you have a tape device, dump/restore should defrag a *nix filesystem. Regards, --djw > -----Original Message----- > From: Spencer Butler [mailto:spencer at autonomous.tv] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:35 PM > To: TClug > Subject: [TCLUG] defrag linux > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list